Archive for September 7th, 2009

Laura Horsley is devastated when the bookshop where she works is about to close. With no immediate plan for future work, she ends up agreeing to organise a literary festival deep in the English countryside.

Laura has no idea how to organise a literary festival and soon starts to panic. Not only that but Laura inadvertantly makes people believe she knows Dermot Flynn, a reclusive writer struggling with writer’s block.

Laura sets off to Ireland with her friend Monica to track down the elusive Dermot Flynn…

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Penguin imprint Michael Joseph has bought UK, Commonwealth (including Europe) rights for Faking It by journalist Charlotte Kymberley Walsh.

Michael Joseph’s Kate Burke bought the debut title from Geraldine Nichol at the Book Bureau. The book is due out next summer.

Faking It tells the tale of Katie, an ordinary twenty-something, who breaks-up with her actor boyfriend
Jack and finds herself on the front pages of the tabloids when he leaves her for a famous actress. Overnight Katie becomes a celebrity and is offered a makeover that will change her life.

From The Bookseller.

It sounds like a fabulous book and I can’t wait for it to be released!

Veronica Henry has just released her latest novel Marriage and Other Games, but her next book is already up on Amazon for pre-order! Starstruck is due out in September 2010, and sounds like a brilliant read. Here’s the synopsis:

“There was an old joke that went ‘if you can remember the Raffertys’ wedding, then you weren’t there.’ Like the Jaggers, hell-raiser Raf Rafferty and his wife Delilah have lived their very full lives in the full glare of the media spotlight for thirty years.

Now with three daughters of their own, Delilah is planning her own birthday party, a night that will see the great and the good from the worlds of tv and theatre descending on their gorgeous Richmond home. Along with their three very different daughters: Coco, Mimi and Biba.

As with all families, there are fallings-out, secrets and long-buried rivalries bubbling away. And one on gloriously starry night, it’s all going to come spilling out… This is your invitation to a birthday party of the year!”

The book is published by Orion on 2nd September 2010. Veronica also has a short story collection entitled The Beach Hut also due out in 2010.