Archive for October 21st, 2009

Cassie Cavanagh has a great job, a great boyfriend and earns enough money to keep her in shiny new shoes and fabulous clothes.

What Cassie doesn’t reckon on is being sacked from her job due to the recession. Not only that but her boyfriend dumps her for an older woman.

Cassie also seems to be spiralling into debt and is forced to listen to flatmate Jude’s advice on money. Can Cassie claw her way out of the recession and stop spending money?

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Olivia Ryan is the author of three novels all telling “Tales From”: Tales From a Hen Weekend, Tales From A Wedding Day and Tales From A Honeymoon Hotel. The books don’t follow each other as Olivia explains below. I haven’t read any of the three but I think they all sound fab. Olivia also writes under her real name of Sheila Norton and has had 5 books published under her Sheila name.

1. Describe your latest novel in a sentence.

Three very different couples meet on their honeymoon on a Croatian island - but it soon becomes apparent that they all have difficulties to overcome in their relationships.

2. Will there be a fourth “Tales from…” book? They all sound like fab reads!

Thank you! No - the series was marketed as a ‘trilogy’ (even though the books are all separate stories, with different characters), because they make up a nice set as a hen weekend story, a wedding story and a honeymoon story. We felt it would be overdoing it somewhat to carry on with a pregnancy story or a divorce story!

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Erica Bauermeister‘s fiction debut The Monday Night Cooking Club will be released on 25th February 2010 and sounds like a fantastic read. It’ll be another to go onto my Amazon wishlist. I also love the cover for it. Here’s the synopsis for it:

On Monday nights eight people gather in Lillian’s restaurant for a cooking class. There’s Claire, who can barely remember the last time she went out without her two kids; bachelor Ian, who exists on Chinese takeaways; Chloe, the distracted waitress who is forever dropping things; Carl and Helen, getting past a betrayal in their marriage; and Tom, mourning the tragic loss of his wife.

Plus Lillian, who taught herself to cook to reach out to her unhappy mother. From delicious feasts to dining disasters, will the cooks find what they are looking for? And among the utensils and mouth-watering ingredients, will some of them even fall in love? The Monday Night Cooking School is a gorgeous novel about possibilities and the magic of food.