Archive for November 24th, 2010

Bea is about to spend her first Christmas with her baby son Luca, but it’s going be a bittersweet Christmas for the pair of them. Bea’s Italian café The Honey Pot and is as usual doing a booming business, and she loves the characters she meets along the way. Outside, with just 12 days to go until Christmas, Olivia ends up on the pavement after nearly being run over. She’s taken inside The Honey Pot by Bea and is taken care of, but is she running away from the pressure of hosting her fiancé’s entire family for Christmas? Then there’s Chloe whose relationship with Michael seems to be falling apart at the special time of year. She’s lonely, she wants to enjoy her man but hates that he has to go back to his family every night instead of being with her.With just 12 days to go until Christmas, will the lives of Bea, Olivia and Chloe be sorted out and will they all get their Merry Christmas?

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Back in August I read a book that pretty much blew me away. I’m not joking, I absolutely adored it. The ending made me smile like a total loon and to know it was a debut novel was stunning! So when I got the chance to ask the lovely Ali McNamara, the author of the stunning From Notting Hill With Love… Actually, some questions I was so excited you have no idea. Well, the book is out this week, so here is our interview with Ali! You’re welcome!

1. Tell us about your debut novel From Notting Hill With Love… Actually?

It’s about Scarlett who adores the movies, but her fiancé and family think she’s a bit too obsessed by them. So when she gets the chance to get away from them all and house-sit a grand mansion in Notting Hill, the setting of one of her all time favourite movies she grabs the opportunity to try and live out her film fantasies one last time.

2. Are you currently working on a second book? Can you tell us anything about it?

Yes, it’s about a girl called Darcy who finds out at her aunt’s funeral she’s the sole beneficiary of her very wealthy estate. But before Darcy can claim one penny of the money the will stipulates she must go and live on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland for a year and set up a new community of people to live there with her. Darcy’s used to living in London where all she has to worry about is buying the latest designer handbag and popping down to Starbuck’s for a ‘Caramel Macchiato’ so island living doesn’t exactly come easily. But if Darcy thinks her only challenge over the year will be how she’s going to match her shoes to her rain jacket, or survive without Eastenders for 12months, she hasn’t banked on what the island of Tara has in store in for her…

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Milly Johnson has had her first two book covers redesigned to match her more recently published books, so we thought we would share them with you too! I do love the retro look of the first two b0oks, and think they really stand out and definitely suit the stories inside, but the new covers are also gorgeous, very classy and now you can have all of Milly’s books matching on your bookshelf! What do you think of the new covers for The Yorkshire Pudding Club and The Birds and the Bees?