Archive for May 13th, 2009

Lulu Taylor, author of the fantastic novel Heiresses, has a new novel due out early next year entitled Midnight Girls. Heiresses followed 3 sisters set to inherit a large company, and Midnight Girls once again follows a group of women in their fight to keep a secret and stay on top. It looks brilliant, and here is the rest of the synopsis:

From the prestigious dormitories of Westfield and Oxford’s austere college halls, to the irresistible socialite scene of present-day London, everywhere Allegra McCorquodale goes, scandal follows her. And in Allegra’s shadow are her closest friends since school, the Midnight Girls.

Romily de Lisle: super rich, brilliant and bored. She’s as blessed as Allegra when it comes to looks, but she’s a force to be reckoned with. And Imogen Heath: pretty, timid and hopelessly drawn to Allegra’s reckless charm. She longs to be a part of the glitzy high-society world where her friends move with such ease.

Once free of the cloistered worlds of school and university, the Midnight Girls face new and different challenges, but they are forever bonded by a terrible secret they’ve sworn never to break. Bitter rivalries arise as their professional lives soon cross paths. Greed, tragedy and sinister passions threaten their allegiance. Each of them stand to lose what they love most, and one of them must make the ultimate sacrifice.

Midnight Girls is set for release in January 2010, with Heiresses currently available in all good bookshops.

According to the bookseller Jill Mansell’s next novel is titled Take A Chance On Me and is due out in February next year. Also good to know is Headline have struck a four-book deal with Jill and the books are being scheduled for release annually from 2011 with a hardback edition out in February and a paperback edition out in June.

It’s good to know some of our favourite authors - Jill, Melissa Hill - will be back with more books!

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Transworld has bought the rights to three new novels from ex-Heat deputy editor Jo Carnegie. Editorial director Sarah Turner acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Amanda Preston at Luigi Bonomi Associates.

The first in the deal - Carnegie’s third novel - will be called Role Play and is due to be published in May 2010. The new books will be part of the Churchminster series, centred around life in the village. Carnegie’s her second novel, Naked Truths, is due to be published in paperback by Corgi in October. She was deputy editor at Heat magazine for five years and has also worked at Glamour and More magazine. From the bookseller.

Hodder & Stoughton has bought the rights for four new novels by chick-lit author Melissa Hill, who moved over to the publisher in 2008.

Sara Kinsella, senior editor, acquired British Commonwealth rights from Sheila Crowley, literary agent at Curtis Brown.

Title and publication details of the new books in the deal are yet to be finalised, but Hodder will publish one book a year. Please Forgive Me will be published in October. From the bookseller.