Archive for March 7th, 2011

When man-eater Mattie Johns agrees to star on a dating game show to save her ailing recruitment business, she’s confident she’ll sail through to the end without letting down the perma-guard she’s perfected from years of her love ‘em and leave ‘em dating strategy. After all, what can go wrong with dating a few losers and hanging out long enough to pick up a juicy £50,000 prize?

Plenty, Mattie discovers, when it’s revealed that the contestants are four of her very unhappy exes. Can Mattie confront her past to get the prize money she so desperately needs, or will her exes finally wreak their long-awaited revenge? And what about the ambitious TV producer whose career depends on stopping her from making it to the end?

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Exciting news for fans of the Bridget Jones’ books by Helen Fielding… the author herself has confirmed that she is writing a third novel starting Bridget. Nothing has really been revealed about the book yet, although Fielding has said “I will be working on both the book and the film but I don’t know if they’re the same thing yet. It’s not been decided.”. I have read both books but I love the films starring the fabulous Renée Zellweger (left), Colin Firth and Hugh Grant more, so I’ll definitely been looking out for more news of this book as and when we get it!

Victoria Connelly’s second Jane Austen-themed novel The Perfect Hero will be released on 21st April 2011. It isn’t a direct sequel to A Weekend With Mr Darcy - more a companion novel, really. I can’t wait to read this novel as I loved A Weekend With Mr Darcy and I adore the beautiful cover. Here’s the synopsis:

The circus has come to town… Die-hard romantic, Kay Ashton, uses her inheritance to open a B&B in the seaside town of Lyme Regis and is dumbstruck when the cast and crew of a new production of Persuasion descend, needing a place to stay. Kay can’t believe her luck – especially when she realises that heart throb actor Oli Wade Owen will be sleeping under her very own roof!

Meanwhile, co-star Gemma Reilly is worried that her acting isn’t up to scratch, despite landing a plum role. She finds a sympathetic ear in shy producer, Adam Craig, who is as baffled by the film world as she is. Kay thinks the two are meant for each other and can’t resist a spot of matchmaking. Then, when Oli turns his trademark charm on Kay, it seems that she has found her real-life hero. But do heroes really exist?