Archive for January, 2010
Posted on Sunday, January 17th, 2010 by Leah
In My Mailbox was created by The Story Siren and let’s us show off the books we’ve acquired this week (in the post, from the library, bought). We’ll post the titles of our books and, in brackets, where they’re from and we’ll post the picture below!
Leah’s Books This Week: Katy Carter Wants A Hero by Ruth Saberton (my thanks to Ruth for sending me this - I adored it), The More You Ignore Me by Jo Brand (Headline Review), Coming Home by Melanie Rose (AVON)
Chloe’s Books This Week: How To Be Married by Polly Williams (Headline Review), Daughters of Fortune by Tara Hyland (Simon & Schuster), The Celebrity Mother by Deborah Wright (Headline Review), A Mother’s Guide to Cheating by Kate Long (Simon and Schuster), Three Nights in New York by Michelle Jackson (Michelle herself) and The Family Man by Elinor Lipman (Headline Review).
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Posted on Friday, January 15th, 2010 by Leah
Twenty years after her husband Ed dies in a car accident, Alberta Granger finally feels as if her life is stable. She has two fantastic children and has been with Tony for almost twenty years. Alberta’s daughter, Hannah, also feels as if her life is great: she has a fab job in London, she has great friends and an even better boyfriend.
Phillipa, Alberta’s mother, has an idyllic life, living with her former Government minister husband and the only thing that concerns her is the greenfly on her roses. However when Phillipa’s husband dies in dubious circumstances, all three womens lives are about to change. As scandal upon scandal comes out of the woodwork, do the three women have what it takes to come out of the whole thing stronger?
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Posted on Friday, January 15th, 2010 by Chloe
The fab publishers of Jane Costello’s third book My Single Friend have sent us an exclusive extract of the new book, and told us we can share it with you all too! The book is out on 15th April 2010 so we’ve still got a wait but we’ve got this to whet your appetite! Have a read and leave a comment letting us know what you think!
Extract is after the cut
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Posted on Friday, January 15th, 2010 by Chloe
Niamh Greene’s fourth book Rules for a Perfect Life is due out on 3rd June 2010, and sounds like a fun read. I also like the blue cover, it makes a change from shades of white and cream! Here’s the synopsis:
“Rules for a perfect life . . .
Rule One: Do not ditch the man everyone says is perfect for you because he eats the last yellow jelly-baby in the bag.
Rule Two: Do not move to a shack in the country to ‘find yourself’ and inadvertently become an object of ridicule for the locals.
Rule Three: Do not fall for a man who already has three children who hate you, a saintly dead wife you can never live up to and a mother who thinks you are the hired help.
Maggie wants the perfect life – but if she keeps breaking the rules can she ever have it?”
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Posted on Thursday, January 14th, 2010 by Chloe
Angela Clark is back… and this time she’s heading the hills of Hollywood! After being cheated on at her best friend’s wedding and consequently fleeing to New York, Angela is now settled in her relationship with boyfriend Alex and enjoying her job as a high flying journalist. She’s stunned when she’s called in to her editor’s office to find she’s being sent to interview Hollywood heart-throb and fellow Brit James Jacobs. Angela flies across the US to Hollywood, and is greeted by sunshine, beaches and Rodeo Drive. Together with her best friend Jenny, they enjoy the unexpected trip and Angela sets to work interviewing James. But with Angela, nothing ever goes smoothly. The paparazzi photo Angela in some rather compromising pictures with James, and she has to fight to get everyone to believe there is nothing to the pictures. Will her interview be a success, or is she going to end up on the first flight back to Britain?
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Posted on Thursday, January 14th, 2010 by Leah
Linda Kelsey’s new book, The Twenty Year Itch, is due out in hardback (right) on 7th January 2010 and in paperback (left) on 18th March 2010 and both have different covers. Which do you prefer? I quite like the paperback version myself. Here’s the synopsis for The Twenty-Year Itch:
Can love survive long-term in the twenty-first century? Julie is beginning to doubt it. When her husband of twenty years announces that he is chucking his job to embark on an adult gap year leaving his salary and Julie behind, she puts her marriage under the microscope.
Turning to her friends for comfort and advice, Julie finds that their relationships are falling apart too. Surely they can’t all be innocent victims? Or all bad wives? Is there no such thing as an enduring marriage? Does that twenty-year itch just have to be scratched?
While this emotional maelstrom rages around her, meeting someone new is the last thing on Julie’s mind. Until a chance encounter propels her onto a sexual collision course with a man who spells danger . . .
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Posted on Thursday, January 14th, 2010 by Chloe
It’s currently untitled but I was thrilled to see Matt Dunn’s next release is already on Amazon and slated for a release this autumn! Even more exciting is that it brings back the fabulous characters of Ed and Dan from Dunn’s previous releases “The Ex-Boyfriend’s Handbook” and “Ex-Girlfriends United“, one of the best male friendships written in the genre! It’s due out on 30th September 2010, and here’s the synopsis:
“Edward Middleton is ecstatic: his girlfriend Sam has asked him to marry her - and of course he’s said yes. But his plans for a lavish white wedding to declare his love to the world are scuppered when Sam announces she’d prefer a no-nonsense registry office do, and that she’ll make all the arrangements. With the wedding date fast approaching, Edward becomes somewhat uneasy at Sam’s secret meetings and private phone calls which she dismisses as ‘wedding stuff’. And when he spies her disappearing into a pub with a man he’s never seen before, all his old jealousies and insecurities threaten to re-surface. At the same time, Edward is wondering whether it was a sensible idea to ask his best friend Dan to be his best man: Dan’s proposed stag night celebrations of stripper-led debauchery in Amsterdam don’t exactly tally with Edward’s desire for a low-key affair. When a severely hungover Edward wakes up in his hotel room the morning after the night before and realizes with horror what he must have done, it looks as though the wedding might be cancelled in any case. Will Edward come clean to Sam? Who is the mystery man she’s been seeing? And will they ever make it up the aisle?”
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Posted on Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 by Leah
Jennifer Boyde has no idea that her perfect life is about to unravel, so when she hears a voice message from her husband Robert to someone named Jon, Jen is perplexed. All soon becomes horribly clear to Jen and she can’t believe her orderly life has unravelled in such a way. Jen’s world is shaken to the core and becomes even more confusing when a face from the past reappears.
Jen met Kit Avery on an airbase in Germany and although she thought he was out of her league, they ended up dating for an entire summer. Jen thought Kit would be her one and only so when a tragic accident sends Kit away, Jen doesn’t think she’ll ever see him again. Years later, Kit and Jen meet again and are both forced to confront what happened that summer at the airbase, as well as their feelings for each other. Is it possible for your first love to really be your only love?
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