Jenny Colgan's Christmas Island Collection

A Scottish Romance Book Set Featuring Christmas on the Island & Christmas at the Island Hotel

By: Jenny Colgan

Narrated by: Sarah Barron, Eilidh Beaton

Celebrate the holidays with New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan’s Christmas Island Collection, featuring two novels—Christmas on the Island and Christmas at the Island Hotel—two romantic and festive tales set on a charming island off the coast of Scotland.

“Losing myself in Jenny Colgan’s beautiful pages is the most delicious, comforting, satisfying treat I have had in ages.”—New York Times bestselling author Jane Green

Christmas on the Island

On the remote Scottish island of Mure, Flora MacKenzie braces for a stark, windy, and icy—yet incredibly festive and beautiful—Christmas season. She must figure out how to tell her ex-boss that she’s carrying his child, as well as break the news to her co-parent Joel. Meanwhile Saif, a doctor and refugee from war-torn Syria is trying to enjoy his first western Christmas with his sons. His wife, however, is still missing, and her absence hangs over what should be a delightful celebration. Can the family possibly find comfort and joy without her? For both Flora and Saif, this will be a Highland Christmas they’ll never forget.

Christmas at the Island Hotel

New mother Flora and her brother Fintan are working themselves half to death to get their new hotel ready in time for Christmas while an unlikely friendship grows between two friends working in the establishment’s kitchen. Waitress Isla Gregor dreams of a bigger, better life. Konstantin Pederson is learning the value of hard work—and hiding his true identity as the only son of the Duke of Utsire. As Mure’s island residents and special VIP guests gather for the hotel’s grand opening gala, Christmas is in the air. But so are more than a few small-town secrets…

©2023 Jenny Colgan (P)2023 HarperCollins Publishers

Great series- love this author!

Sorry but one of the narrators voices was irritating- Eidilth- unfortunately. Loved the other narrators.

wonderful

the books carried on with loving kindness towards loved ones and strangers that later became friends. a good listen!

The acting by those who were acting out each character was excellent 💚

Excellent books thank you 🙏 it was so good most enjoyable a perfect read but a bit long.

Variety of characters

This was my first time reading Jenny Colgan. I enjoyed both books immensely! She uses a variety of characters and gives them all a good amount of time to create their stories. I also loved the specificity of place. Muir Island was magical! You could really feel, the smallness of it, and the climate, and the closeness of the people. 

Cozy Christmas getaway

Loved it! Another Jenny Colgan I recommend. The books in the collection keep you warm and cozy over Christmas

Character development

Loved the continuing story of these characters (including the terrain of this Northern Scottish Isle).

If your looking for a light read but your a conservative this won’t be it!

I remodel houses and enjoy listening to an Audio book while doing the mundane tasks. Have listen to several from Jenny Colgan and found them enjoyable. With this one I wasn’t loving the story but was stopped cold when she makes a character a fat(isn’t that fat shaming) Texas Trump supporter. Having listen to her books I have only seen her rip on successful heartless business people. Usually redeems them in the end. I have not heard her involve any characters in foreign politics before. Well she got her shot in. With all the hatred our movement gets from the legacy media you would think that you could get a nice light read without getting hated on. Fun fact Donald Trumps grandmother is a full Scot. Will be reaching out to Audible for a refund. I get plenty of hatred from the Democrats who believe their party is doing everything for our best interests. We watch the absolute ruin of our country at the hands of the bought and paid for Democratic Party. Not my father’s Democratic Party. So if you are one of the Trump voters that voted in the landslide victory skip Jenny Colgan.

Least favorite of Jenny Colgan stories

Be prepared for a lot of bashing on Americans. I’m an independent but also be prepared for lots of stereotyping conservatives and people from the country. I’ve gotten hints of this in her other stories but this one also bashes religion. It gets tiring and these stories are more depressing than cheery. Not like her other stories where there is a good amount of both

So disappointing

This was the second book after The Cafe by the Sea. As the author is recapping characters from that book, she changed their circumstances in this one! I have never read a book where the author so blatantly disregarded the characters! I managed to get through part one of this duel story, but couldn’t manage the second. The narrator is terrible. Was looking forward to a good story for the holiday season - this is not it.