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Cupcake Cafe
The Cupcake Cafe series by Jenny Colgan has 2 known books (2 published) and is best read in publication order, starting with Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe (2011).
- Books
- 2 known books (2 novels)
- Published
- 2
- First published
- 2011
- Status
- completed
- Shelved under
- Literary Fiction
- Last checked
Start here: Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe (2011) — then read straight through in publication order.
Reading order
The date order of published books and any announced future entries — the default way to read the series.
- Book 1:
Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe
Jenny Colgan opened her Cupcake Cafe duology in 2011 with Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe, following Issy Randall as she leaves a finance job behind and, armed with her late grandfather's recipes, opens her own cupcake shop in London.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe - Book 2:
Christmas at the Cupcake Cafe
Christmas at the Cupcake Cafe returned to Issy's business a year later, in 2012, for a festive second instalment running 351 pages, shorter than the 413-page original.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Christmas at the Cupcake Cafe
About the Cupcake Cafe series
Issy Randall loses her job in finance and, with a treasured collection of her late grandfather's recipes and a talent for baking, decides to open her own cupcake shop in London rather than look for another office job. Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe (2011) follows the shop's rocky first year; Christmas at the Cupcake Cafe (2012) returns to Issy and her business for a second, festive instalment. An early entry in Jenny Colgan's recurring template of a woman building a small food business into a new life, the duology helped establish the food-shop-and-community formula she'd return to repeatedly in later series such as Little Beach Street Bakery and Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop.
Frequently asked questions
How many Cupcake Cafe books are there?
Two: Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe (2011) and Christmas at the Cupcake Cafe (2012).
Is the Cupcake Cafe duology connected to Jenny Colgan's other food-shop series?
Not by character or setting, but it's an early example of the small-business-and-community template Colgan reused in Little Beach Street Bakery and Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop.
If you like the Cupcake Cafe series
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