Archive for August, 2009

Phoebe Swift is finally realising her dream and is opening up Village Vintage, her very own shop selling vintage clothing and accessories. It’s all going well, so why is Phoebe still a bit down? It turns out she’s carrying a terrible guilt after her friend, Emma, tragically died.

Opening Village Vintage introduces Phoebe to Mrs. Bell (Therese), an elderly French lady who also feels terribly guilty and has a story to tell… In their own way, they both manage to help each other overcome their guilt.

Is it enough to enable Phoebe to love again?

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Finally we have a synopsis for Erica James’ latest book, The Queen of New Beginnings. It’s due for release through Orion on 18th February 2010, and there’s no cover yet but here’s the synopsis to whet your appetite!

“Clayton Miller’s life is a mess. His career as one of the country’s best comedy script writers has stalled and his long term girlfriend has left him for his ex best friend and ex writing partner. Just when he thinks his life couldn’t get any worse, he commits a spectacularly public fall from grace and with the press hounding him, his agent banishes him to the middle of nowhere until the dust has settled.

At a remote country house he meets Alice …

Alice Shoemaker is a voiceover artist who habitually goes to great lengths to avoid telling the truth and after agreeing to help out a friend, by shopping and cleaning for the unknown man staying at Cuckoo House, she soon becomes suspicious that her strange and obnoxiously rude client has something to hide. But equally so, she has plenty to hide.

When they discover the truth about each other they form an unlikely friendship, but then Alice discovers Clayton has betrayed her in the worst possible way.”

We’ve had another re-design so let us know what you think and tell us of any errors you come across. It isn’t too different to our other design but this one is more HTML-geared.

I apologise if the site looks a bit weird, I’m trying to add “Home” to the navigation bar but it takes so long to update that I can’t tell whether or not it has worked!

Leah & Chloe

Lola Fitzgerald has a pretty charmed life. She has every designer piece of clothing she wants, holidays on tap and homes around the world courtesy of her rather rich father.

But Lola’s world is thrown into disarray when her father falls into a coma and Lola’s stepmother Carin cuts off all of her funds immediately. Her situation gets worse when Lola discovers the existance of her father’s mistress Evie Lopez, and her fiance is thrown into rehab for drug addiction.

Lola wants back what is rightfully hers but she is forced to team up with Evie to catch Carin out and get her out of her life once and for all.

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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.”

As a blogger about all things chick-lit I should know the answer to my question - trouble is, I don’t! I’m looking for a book that I read a while ago. I’m pretty sure it was a chick-lit book. From what I can remember I think it was written in first-person and the main character sees her dad go out into the back garden one night and kill himself. I know that sounds dramatic but in the context of the book I don’t think it was quite like that!

I hope someone can tell me what book it was because I really can’t think what it was.