Archive for June, 2010

Polly Williams may have only had a book out this March, but she’s due another release in November this year which is great news for people like me who love her books! A Woman Like Me is out on November 11th and is one I’ll definitely be picking up!

“Nell Stockdale is in a pretty good place, managing to combine a full-on career with single motherhood, a lovely flat, great girlfriends, and a sexy younger man on the scene. But her mother is very ill. Will she return to the family’s large, damp Cornish farmhouse to care for her? Normally Nell keeps her family at arm’s length. Her sister is engaged to Nell’s ex big love, and she has never got on with her eccentric, distant mother. But something powerful is pulling her back to Cornwall… Meanwhile, in Banbury, April James has finally found the courage to leave safe married domesticity and head south on a mission too, convinced that the Stockdales once played a part in her life. One handsome man will enchant both Nell and April. And as the women’s paths cross, dark family secrets, hidden for a generation, change all their lives forever…”

Ashleigh Prince thinks she’s found her Mr Right in Michael so when he dumps her, it comes completely out of left field. Particularly since he dumps her via Facebook. Ashleigh takes the break up incredibly hard and instead of just getting over her heartbreak gracefully and leaving him alone, she instead turns into Michael’s worst nightmare.

When begging and pleading fails to win Michael back, Ashleigh decides, after a lot of Googling, that a grand gesture is in order. As Ashleigh’s bid to win Michael back builds more and more, even involving a psychic cat, is Ashleigh in danger of not only being single but also losing both her sanity and dignity, too?

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I made a post a while back featuring the synopsis for Tara Palmer-Tomkinson’s debut fiction book Inheritance which is due out on October 1st 2010. We now have the cover which I have to admit, is quite nice. I probably won’t read the book, though, because I’m not a fan of celebrity reads! Here’s the synopsis:

Notorious party-loving ‘It Girl’ Lyric Charlton has it all – the lineage, the looks and the lifestyle. A moneyed upbringing at the heart of one of the upper class’s most well-connected families, a finishing school education and an address book bursting with the world’s most powerful and high-profile people has crowned her the glamorous poster girl for the aristocratic glitterati. But when her doomed relationship with suave boy-about-town Ralph Conway means she takes the good times too far, she is packed off to rehab by her worried parents, and the public shame and private humiliation that follow means Lyric’s only option seems to be to retreat into sober obscurity. But what no one can predict is the dramatic chain of events her exile sets in motion. For Lyric’s treatment is the start of much more than a life as an ex-addict. It’s the catalyst that exposes a complex web of deceit and betrayal – and leads Lyric on an increasingly dangerous quest to find the final missing piece of the jigsaw of her life…

A few months ago I received Chrissie Manby’s new book Getting Over Mr Right and I couldn’t wait to read it as I’m a huge fan of her work. I read it a month or so ago and thoroughly enjoyed it, you can see my review tomorrow in fact. I asked if we could interview Chrissie and here it is for you all. Enjoy!

1. Tell us about your latest release Getting Over Mr Right?

GOMR is my fourteenth novel. It’s about Ashleigh Prince, a thirty-something Londoner who reacts very badly to being dumped. Very badly indeed. If you’ve ever been embarrassed by the way you obsessed over an ex, you’ll feel much better after reading this book.

2. Can you tell us about what you’re currently working on?

I’m working on a novel called ‘What I did on my holidays’ which is about a trip to Majorca that goes badly wrong. I am also working on a horror movie. Comedy. Horror. I enjoy mixing things up.

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Thanks to the fabulous publishers at Little, Brown, we have a great giveaway for you today! We have 5 copies of Ronni Cooper’s summer bonkbuster Rock Chicks to giveaway to our readers, lucky you!

All you have to do is fill in the competition form on this page, and that’s it! No emails to be sent, just fill in and submit the form and we’ll do the rest. The competition is open to UK residents only and closes on Sunday 27th June 2010 at midnight. We’ll pick the winners using random.org and you’ll be notified via email if you win. 1 entry per household.

Good luck!!

“The groupie Coco LaBiba has the beauty, she has the money, but she just needs sex, music and fame to get high. She won’t give up her wild ways for anyone ? except the one guy she can never have. The wife Marny Rammer ? pretty, shy, devoted wife of the band’s lead singer. But there’s a price to pay when superstardom comes knocking on your husband’s door, and for Marny it comes in a dangerous pile of fine white powder…The manager Lori Wyatt is the girl from the sticks turned kick-ass band manager who can play any man at their own game ? business, or pleasure ? and who will do anything she can to sky-rocket her boys to the top. Anything.”

This giveaway has now closed.

Veronica Henry’s next book, which was originally called Starstruck, has had a name change before it’s release on 21st October 2010 and will instead be called The Birthday Party. The cover has also finally been released and it’s quite different to Veronica’s previous books. I can’t quite decide if I like it. I mean the purple is nice but I don’t know, I suppose it is lovely. Here’s the synopsis:

Delilah Rafferty has lived out her tempestuous marriage to hell-raiser Raf in the full glare of the media spotlight. Now, from the luxurious comfort of her beautiful kitchen, Delilah is planning her birthday party, a night that will see a star-studded gathering of friends and family celebrate in traditional Rafferty style. But she has more on her mind than just invitations… Raf has been offered a part in a movie he can’t refuse. But will that mean he’ll succumb to the temptations he’s struggled so hard to resist for the last ten years - beautiful women and too much wine? And Delilah’s three daughters, Coco, Violet and Tyger, are building careers of their own, only too aware that the press are waiting for them to slip up. For although the Rafferty girls might look like angels, they are only human. As with all families, there are secrets and rivalries bubbling away, and on one gloriously starry night, it’s all going to come spilling out This is your invitation to a birthday party of the year…

Allegra, Imogen and Romily were all happy at boarding school together until a terrible accident occurs that binds them together with a secret forever. The girls are determined to keep what they know quiet, but at what personal cost is it going to be at?

Fast forward several years, and the girl’s are all living very different lives. Allegra helps her Uncle run a very exclusive club in London, with ideas to start her own clubs as well. Imogen is a trainee lawyer and enjoying the party scene in London, something she never thought she would do, and Romily is living the life of an heiress as best she knows - holidays, beautiful clothes and lots of fun. But when one of the three seems as if they may be in trouble, can they put their past secrets and lies behind them to save each other for the last time?

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Immodesty Blaize’s second book - following Tease - appears to be about Tiger Starr’s daughter, and will be called Ambition. It’s due for release on 14th October 2010 and is bound to appeal to fans of the Bagshawe sisters. Here’s the synopsis:

Money. Fame. Love. Who says you can’t have it all? Being the daughter of a showbiz icon is a mixed blessing for Sienna Starr. Though she dreams of following in her famous mother’s footsteps, she wants to get to the top on her own merits. Securing a role as a chorus girl in the Follies seems a step towards achieving her ambitions. But life isn’t all glamour and glitz and, off the Strip, Las Vegas can be a dark and sinister place. Sienna then makes the mistake of ruffling the feathers of the show’s star, Brandy Alexander. A legend in her own dressing room, not least for her astringent charms, Brandy doesn’t take kindly to younger, prettier girls trying to outshine her. Yet Brandy’s has more than one skeleton in the closet and dark secrets she’d do anything to hide…