Archive for August 24th, 2009

Finally Amazon have a new book up for Emily Barr. I’ve been looking for ages! Her new book is currently Untitled but is due for release on 13th May 2010 and sounds like another fab read:

A girl flees to Venice to escape her dangerous past in this electrifying novel of intrigue, psychological tension and suspense…

Lucy Riddick is a nice, normal thirty-something girl, living an ordinary life in Cornwall. She has a lovely boyfriend and a brilliant best friend. To all appearances, life is going pretty well.

But one night Lucy packs her bags and vanishes, leaving her loved ones behind, desperate for answers. Because Lucy has a secret. It turns out she is not really Lucy Riddick at all. And when she steps off the train and arrives at her next destination, Venice, she will become someone else entirely. If she doesn’t, something bad is going to happen to her. But what happens if something bad is already there, waiting?

Holly Denham works as a receptionist at a big bank in London, and is slowly getting used to her job, alongside her colleagues, keeping in touch with her ever eccentric family and her best friends Jason and Aisha.

The “story” unfolds through the emails sent between Holly, her friends and family and basically gives the ups and downs of Holly’s life, from getting a new boyfriend, learning her job and trying to keep track of her Granny who is living it up at her OAP home.

The story does unfold quite slowly throughout the book but does work up to a nice and surprising climax at the end.

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I pretty much love all manner of reality singing shows, and having the X Factor back on our screens is fab! I’ve just read and loved Anne-Marie O’Connor’s take on singing shows with her fab book Star Struck, and now Will Davis has also taken on the subject too. His book, Dream Machine, was out a few weeks ago but I spotted it in the shop last weekend and had to share as it looks fab. Here’s the synopsis:

“And the name of the girl through to next week is says Stina, and I want to kill her for pausing once again. I want to see her bludgeoned to death with her own stupid mic, her even stupider skin tight dress all stained with oozing gore ‘ Thousands of wannabes are auditioning to be part of mega-girlband Purrfect in a new reality TV series. Among them are ice-queen Louise, who thinks she’s got god on her side, foulmouthed Joni, desperate to hide the fact that she’s got a baby, mousy teen Ella, obsessed with her stepmother’s boyfriend, and cocky Riana, a stripper with a naughty penchant for coke. Each one is determined to be the new Purrfect girl. But as the show progresses it seems someone has a very different sort of agenda in mind - someone who’s not afraid for things to get deadly Will Davis, author of the award-winning My Side of the Story, creates an explosive cocktail of comedy and pathos, in which four lives collide in the wretched pursuit of fame and fortune, spiralling towards a devastating conclusion that confronts the very nature of dreams, and ultimately questions the point of having them.”