Archive for May 28th, 2009

Because we have quite a few Author Interviews, I take my time deciding which to use every week. This week’s Author of the Week and whose Author Interview will be posted tomorrow is Katie Fforde. Here is a small biography from fantasticfiction.co.uk:

Katie Fforde lives in Gloucestershire with her husband and some of her three children. Her hobbies are ironing and housework but, unfortunately, she has almost no time for them as she feels it is her duty to keep a close eye on the afternoon chat shows.

We love Katie here at chicklitreviews, me especially, and I have all of her novels bar Flora’s Lot and Living Dangerously. Out of her 15 novels, bar the two I don’t have, I only have Wild Designs and Wedding Season that I haven’t already read. Her 15th, Love Letters, is out next month and you can read all about it here. I for one can’t wait for Love Letters and will try my best to get it as soon as it is released.

Katie’s books are always enjoyable and are always humourous and you always know you’ll get a good read and good laugh out of her novels. My personal favourites are: Paradise Fields, The Rose Revived, Artistic Licence, Highland Fling & Restoring Grace but I love her others, too.

I also love the covers of her novels. All of her book covers have been re-designed and are really beautiful. You can visit Katie at her website.

So… what do you think of Katie - what is your favourite of her novels?

And can we also say good luck and congratulations to Katie on her impending grandmother-hood!

Author Matt Dunn is back this autumn with his latest book, The Good Bride Guide. I have read 3 of Matt’s previous books - The Ex-Boyfriends Handbook and Ex-Girlfriends United - as well as From Here to Paternity and each were brilliant and hilarious. His newest book looks to follow suit, and here’s the synopsis:

“Ben Grant is fed up with always meeting the wrong girl. Having just celebrated his 29th birthday by being dumped by his 29th girlfriend, he decides he can’t go on like this. Why can’t he be as blissfully happy as his best friend Ashif, about to marry the beautiful Prithi, a bride chosen for him by his parents? Suddenly Ben has a great idea: why not ask his own parents to do the same for him? But while Ben’s parents see this as the perfect opportunity to set their son on the right path to matrimonial bliss, it soon becomes clear that Ben’s idea of the kind of woman he wants to settle down with is quite different from that of his somewhat traditional mum and dad. Following a series of disastrous dates, Ben starts to realize that he wouldn’t let his parents pick him out a shirt to wear, let alone a woman to marry. But when Ben finally meets the girl he thinks might be ‘the one’, he realizes that maybe he does have something to learn from his mum and dad after all. Can he learn the art of romance from his parents and land the girl of his dreams?”

The book is released through Pocket Books on 5th October. Look out for it then!

Sam and Laura Diamond are struggling to make ends meet. She’s a doctor working all hours and he’s a script-writer, although he’s hiding something about his employment status from his wife.

Their friends are struggling too. Corporate laywer Janey is expecting her first child with hedge fund manager Steve, and he knows his job isn’t safe. Jonathan and Hannah also have their own problems despite owning a chain of successful restaurants and moving to the country.

Jonathan decides to treat them all to a holiday to celebrate his birthday but secrets are revealed, shocking everyone and changing friendships forever.

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