Posted on May 24th, 2010 by Chloe
Samantha Sharp is a football agent, and a very good one at that. She’s worked hard to get to the top in a male oriented world, and it’s finally paying off. However, when Sam is set up and her beloved career threatened, she’s determined to clear her name and get to the bottom of who wants to destroy her life. She’s also afraid that if her bosses dig hard enough, they’re going to find out about something about Sam’s past she has managed to keep hidden for a long time, and something that she doesn’t want to come out. Is Samantha going to be able to fight for justice for herself, or is everything she’s worked hard to build going to crumble down around her?
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Posted on May 24th, 2010 by Leah
Another author that is relatively new to me is Lesley Lokko. I think we may have posted something about her last book but apart from that, she’s never really come to my attention. However I was browsing around the web and came across the cover for her next book One Secret Summer which is due out on 30th September 2010. I think the cover looks really nice and the synopsis sounds intriguing, too:
The Keelers are one of those nice, middle-class English families who seem to have it all. Diana is the matriarch - a highly successful barrister and QC, she’s the force that keeps everyone and everything together. Her sons Rafe, Aaron and Josh are in their mid-thirties when they each, in turn, get married. The arrival into the family of three very different women - Maddy, an American actress; Julia, lawyer with working-class roots and Niela, a young Somali refugee - upsets the carefully constructed balance of family life that Diana has worked so hard to maintain. There’s a dreadful secret at the heart of the Keeler family and slowly, each of the women in her own way, begins to unravel what it is that Diana has kept hidden for so long. Touched with glamour and escapism, this riveting new novel from Lesley Lokko takes you right to the heart of a family secret.
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Posted on May 24th, 2010 by Leah
Laura Elliot’s debut novel A Prodigal Sister was released last year and I managed to pick it up at the book swop some months ago. I have yet to read it but it does sound fab so I will get around to it eventually. Laura’s next book called Stolen Child will be published on 22nd July 2010. It sounds like a fantastic read - one fans of Jodi Picoult, Diane Chamberlain and Giselle Green will adore and I must say I’m really looking forward to it. Here’s the synopsis:
When Carla Kelly and Robert Gardner marry, they seem destined for happiness. But tragedy strikes when their two-day-old baby, Isobel, is stolen. Distraught and bewildered, they must cope with the media frenzy that follows. Isobel’s whereabouts remains a mystery for sixteen years. As hope of finding her fades, their marriage disintegrates under the strain and they divorce. Robert moves to Australia and Carla, who had been a successful model, becomes reclusive.
Meanwhile, many miles away in a small country town-land, Aisling Nolan, unaware of her true identity, is the adored only child of Susan and David Nolan. When she discovers the truth, she struggles to come to terms with the knowledge that her childhood was based on a lie - and that the woman she knew as her mother must now stand trial for kidnapping. David, under police investigation, is determined to prove his innocence. For Carla and Robert, the adjustment is equally painful. Their long search is over but their daughter is a stranger to them. Initially, Carla’s anger towards David is intense but, as his story unfolds, and with the eyes of the media watching, she is aware of a strong, mutual attraction drawing them towards each other. Stolen Child is a love story about two families who are torn apart by deception and the consequences of a reckless act that shaped their futures.
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Posted on May 23rd, 2010 by Chloe
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! All links go to Amazon, with summaries & things!
Chloe’s Books This Week: A Perfect Proposal by Katie Fforde (Century), Kissing Mr Wrong by Sarah Duncan (Headline Review), Sex and the City 2 Movie Guide (Headline), The Bridesmaid Pact by Julia Williams (Avon)
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Posted on May 22nd, 2010 by Danielle
Author Sarah Pekkanen has signed a new 2 book deal with her publishers. Apparently, the books are going to be follow ups to Sarah’s popular book The Opposite of Me so we can look forward to those!
“Atria’s Greer Hendricks bought two new novels by Sarah Pekkanen, whose just-published debut The Opposite of Me (Atria, Mar.), has already entered its third printing. Agent Victoria Sanders closed the deal with Hendricks, selling world English rights to the titles. The first book follows a woman whose husband wakes from a coma a changed man.”
Source: http://www.victoriasanders.com/atria-signs-sarah-pekkanen-for-two-more-books
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Posted on May 22nd, 2010 by Danielle
Susan Wingate’s “Bobby’s Diner” – the No. 1 Book in the Bobby’s Diner Series Wins a 2010 Finalist Award for the fiction category of Women’s Lit/Chick Lit, in the International Book Awards (IBA).
On the heels of 2009, it seems as if “Bobby’s Diner” will not give up its momentum on prize-winning.
Susan Wingate’s novel, “Bobby’s Diner” (False Bay Books, August 2009) won two finalist awards in 2009—one for the National Book Awards and another for the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. This year the book is still garnering acclaim.
The 2010 International Book Awards (IBA) has just slated “Bobby’s Diner” as a Finalist Award Winner in the fiction category of Women’s Lit/Chick Lit. When asked about the honors, Wingate responded, “I couldn’t believe it. I entered only two days before the deadline! I had to Federal Express my entry to have it arrive on time. I thought it was a good try but never, ever thought it would win in an international competition. Not that I don’t have faith in this book, nothing like it. But, and international competition draws so many more entries, I thought [“Bobby’s Diner”] might have slight chance of winning, at best. I’m ecstatic!”
Source: http://www.mynewsdesk.com/us/view/pressrelease/susan-wingate-susan-wingates-bobbys-diner-wins-2010-finalist-award-in-the-international-book-awards-iba-411990
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Posted on May 21st, 2010 by Chloe
One morning in the small town of Lakeview, Ella Harris finds a cardboard box on the doorstop of her café. At first she thinks it’s her usual muffin delivery but is shocked to find that the box actually contains a newborn baby.
But what kind of mother would abandon a defenceless baby like that, and why?
Could it have been newly single Nina who, after being rejected by the father of her unborn child, has no choice but to return to Lakeview to stay with her estranged (and slightly peculiar) dad?
Or was it Lakeview-born Hollywood actress Eva Seymour, who on the eve of her triumphant return home from LA, has a completely ill-advised fling with a handsome co-star. A baby is certain to ruin her hard-fought-for career.
Or perhaps it’s happily married Jess who, as the only non-mum amongst her friends, finds herself increasingly left out. Terrified that she will lose them altogether, she embarks on becoming a mother too. But is she really rushing into something she really knows nothing about?
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Posted on May 21st, 2010 by Leah
The ever-prolific Carole Matthews is back with her second book of 2010 on 16th September 2010 called The Only Way Is Up. As I’m a huge fan of Carole’s, I’m really looking forward to her new release and I also can’t wait to see the cover because since Carole Matthews has had her new cover design, I think it’s one of the best I’ve seen! Here’s the synopsis:
Lily and Laurence Lamont-Jones have it all: lavish holidays in exotic locations, a top private school for their children, Hettie and Hugo, and a beautiful Buckinghamshire home with horses and stables. But their perfect world is about to be turned upside down. Laurence has lost his job and, on their return from holiday, they find their house and all their belongings have been repossessed. Forced to live in a council house on one of Milton Keynes’s roughest estates, the Lamont-Joneses are about to discover how the other half live. And with the help of true friends, a little luck and a lot of determination they learn that when you’ve reached rock bottom the only way is up…
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