Archive for August 26th, 2009

Isabel Wolff is one of my favourite authors - I’ve just recently reviewed A Vintage Affair and I reviewed Forget Me Not a while back - and I love how her books are so real. I’ve read most of Isabel’s books and have loved them. I was thrilled when Isabel agreed to do an author interview!

1. Describe your novel, A Vintage Affair, in a sentence.

It’s a story of friendship, regret and redemption, set in a vintage dress shop in contemporary south London, and in wartime Provence.

2. Please tell us there will be a next book?! I’ve just finished - and loved - A Vintage Affair so I eagerly await your next novel!

I’m working on it now - it’s a about a portrait painter. I always give my heroines interesting jobs - for example agony aunt, animal behaviourist, radio journalist, vintage dress shop owner etc. - because I think it’s interesting for the reader to learn something about a different world while at the same time having what is, hopefully, an engaging and compelling read.

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Orion has signed a debut author in a two-book deal completed under auction.Senior commissioning editor Sara O’Keeffe acquired the two titles by Rainbow Rowell via Nicola Barr at The Susijn Agency, on behalf of Ralph Vicinanza Associates.

The first of the pair, entitled Flagged, is due out in February 2011. Described as “a gorgeous, sweet, smart and funny romantic comedy”, the novel is set in a newspaper office on the eve of the millennium, at a time “when email was still a novelty”.

During work hours, two young women spend their time emailing each other, discussing “in hilarious detail”, every aspect of their lives. By night, a “shy IT worker”, who is monitoring emails, finds himself enjoying their correspondence a little too much, and ends up falling in love with one of them.

I have to say, it sounds like a fab read and it’s such a shame we have to wait until 2011!

From The Bookseller.

Annie Curtis has decided enough is enough with philanderer husband Mark, and on Christmas Day tells him their marriage is over.

They decide to carry on living together with their dog Fluffy in order to maintain an amicable divorce, but that is thrown into chaos when Mark decides to go for full custody of Fluffy.

Annie is outraged because to her, the dog is her baby. Annie is determined to win the battle between the pair as several shocking truths come out, and Annie’s life is turned upside down…

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Jo Carnegie’s second book in the Churchminster series Naked Truths, is due out on 8th October and carries on from her first novel, Country Pursuits. The synopsis reads:

Newly-weds Caro and Benedict have swapped country life in Churchminster for an exclusive London mews. It’s blissful …until Benedict’s sister arrives, bringing with her a dangerous secret.

Fashionable socialite Saffron lives next door. She always thought the countryside was boring, but when she’s invited to Churchminster she’s shocked to learn just how dirty rural life can get.

Saffron’s boss, workaholic editor Catherine, is fighting to save her ailing magazine. But her scandalous past threatens to destroy everything, especially when rugged builder John Milton strides into her life.