Poppy Alexander Books in Order

Since her husband’s death, Kate has struggled with the Christmas season, but she resolves to make it special for her son. An ambitious advent countdown brings unexpected complications and a chance encounter with another lonely person seeking connection.

Returning to Middlemass after her mother’s death, Freya feels little Christmas spirit and must share a roof with neighbor Finn. Cooking dishes inspired by the twelve days of Christmas brings villagers together and gives her unexpected reasons to consider staying.

After losing her grandmother and library job, Jess moves to a country cottage with a collection of beloved books. Turning its disused phone box into a tiny lending library draws the village together and opens possibilities for friendship, romance and a new home.

Widowed children’s writer Imogen moves alone to a country cottage and discovers she is pregnant. An old clause in the property deeds gives her brooding blacksmith neighbor power over her home, complicating an attraction that grows amid uncertainty and grief.

Jules returns to rescue her great-aunt’s failing seaside bookshop, only to discover an unaffordable lease renewal. Its owner, the son of her family’s longtime rivals, opens a competing store opposite, turning survival into a contest complicated by attraction.

After a viral mistake damages her career, literary agent Petra retreats to manage a seaside bookshop. Friendship with a stalled novelist helps revive her love of reading, but a potential comeback demands courage from two people held back by their own doubts.