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This weeks Author of the Week is the great chick-lit/bonkbuster(!) author Tilly Bagshawe. I’ve read 3 of Tilly’s books now and they are incredibly readable, and absorb you in within just a few pages so she’s well worth checking out if you haven’t already! Tilly obviously has writing in the blood because her sister is fellow author Louise Bagshawe who featured as our Author of the Week a few months ago, and both sisters are equally great at what they do.

Tilly’s first novel Adored was released in 2004, and was one I read before I started reviewing. It was fantastic and quite unlike anything else I had read at that point. Since then she has released Showdown (the only book I haven’t read of Tilly’s), Do Not Disturb and Flawless. Tilly also wrote the sequel to Sidney Sheldon’s Master of the Game which was called Mistress of the Game and has been very well received by fans of both authors. Here’s about Tilly:

“Tilly Bagshawe went to Cambridge at the age of eighteen with her ten-month-old daughter in tow. At 26, she was the youngest ever partner in one of the world’s most prestigious headhunting firms. Tilly is married and divides her time between LA and London.”

Tilly’s next projects include novel Scandalous which is due in 2010, and also another Sidney Sheldon book which is titled Sidney Sheldon’s After The Darkness, so she’s been very busy! If you enjoy really fun and gritty chick lit, or you’ve read and enjoyed Louise Bagshawe’s work, then I can definitely recommend Tilly’s books to you. They’re fun, sexy and brilliant reads… what more could you ask for?!

Ooooh an exclusive! Tilly Bagshawe has a new book coming next year… Scandalous! It’s due out on 24th June 2010 and sounds like a typical Bagshawe read… brilliant! Here’s the exclusive synopsis:

“Sasha Miller comes to Cambridge with a dream and leaves on a mission. After falling for the lies and charms of her Director of Studies ‘Theo Dexter’ she finds herself betrayed, humiliated and nursing a bundle of broken dreams. Heading to the US she is determined to rebuild her life. Years later, Sasha emerges from Harvard Business School with one thing on her mind, the downfall of the now famous Professor Theo Dexter. Meanwhile Theo’s long suffering wife Theresa also finds herself betrayed and cast aside for a younger and prettier model. Unable to cope she returns to Cambridge a broken woman and tries to rebuild her life away from the scheming Theo Dexter. One night Sasha turns up at Theresa’s door, she wants revenge at any cost, will Theresa help her? From the deepest betrayal comes a shocking alliance. Two vengeful women, one very unlucky man…”

Do Not Disturb is set in the world of hotels. Honor Palmer is a hotel heiress who is forced to take over the running of Palmers Hotel in East Hampton when her father dies. The local residents do not take kindly to this so Honor has to build up her reputation again. She has to do this in spite of her publicity-seeking sister Tina who is bleeding the sisters inheritance dry, and a new modern, sleed hotel ran by world-famous hotel Anton Tisch opening up down the road. Not to mention competing with the Spanish womaniser Lucas Ruiz who is running the new Tisch hotel, the Herrick.

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Scarlett Drummond Murray is an ex-model turned jewellery designer and is doing well for herself in London. But when Scarlett starts getting involved with her campaign Trade Fair to get people to take note of bad treatment of diamond miners, things start to become sinister for Scarlett.

Diamond mogul Brogan O’Donnell isn’t happy his mines are being bad-mouthed and sets out for revenge. London twins and diamond dealers Jake and Danny Meyer are also caught up in the corrupt world, and their lives are taking turns they didn’t quite expect along the way.

Who will come out on top in the ruthless diamond world?

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POLLY WILLIAMS - THE WORLDS WORST WIFE - 14TH MAY
Don’t try this at home …Sadie Drew thinks she may actually be the world’s worst wife. She only needs to walk into a room to make it untidy.

There are always leeks liquefying in her fridge. And her three-year-old son is now the love of her life. Husband doesn’t seem to mind so much, until he gets a big high-pressure job and things change.

She suspects he’s cheating.

The marriage starts to fall apart and, as mother-in-law smugly points out, Sadie faces a stark choice: risk losing everything or up her game. Can she transform herself into the perfect wife?

And ultimately is this a game worth winning?

IMOGEN EDWARDS-JONES - WEDDING BABYLON - 21ST MAY
It is a truth universally acknowledged that everyone loves a good wedding. Except, possibly, the bride and groom, who spend the day in such an overexcited frenzy that they can’t remember it. And the bridesmaids, who are forced to wear ill-fitting peach taffeta so as not to outshine the bride. And the best man, who has to make a terrifying speech in front of a room of drunken people he’s never met before, then fight off the attentions of the chief bridesmaid. Oh, and the father of the bride, who has to pay through the nose for the whole thing…Now, in the bestselling Babylon tradition, Imogen Edwards-Jones lifts the lid on the excesses of the wedding industry.This title presents the scams which inflate the prices of everything from flowers to cakes to marquee hire. And the wedding disaster stories of high jinks at the altar and disastrous low comedy in the speeches. The potential for things to go horribly, horribly wrong is never higher than at a wedding. Hilarious, shocking and thoroughly entertaining, “Wedding Babylon” is proof positive that the dream day is never far from becoming a nightmare.

FIONA NEILL - FRIENDS, LOVERS & OTHER INDISCRETIONS - 21ST MAY
It’s early 2008 and the credit crunch is starting to bite. Sam and Laura Diamond - and their friends - are circling forty and all feeling a lot less certain about life than when they first met in their twenties. Laura wants to work part-time and have a third child - an appalling prospect for her husband Sam, whose secret ambition is to give up his job as a struggling scriptwriter and have a vasectomy. Life’s no more straightforward for wild child turned corporate lawyer Janey Dart. Having finally given up on Patrick, the love of her life, she finds herself unexpectedly pregnant and hastily married to a wealthy hedge fund manager who loathes her friends. And Sam’s oldest friend, trendy restaurant owner Jonathan Sleet, is about to hit the big time with a TV series and cookbook, but can’t control his roving eye. So it’s no surprise that back on their organic farm in Suffolk, his once glamorous wife Hannah is finding distractions of her own. Determined to reunite the group, Jonathan brings everyone together for a holiday to celebrate his fortieth birthday. But six friends, two decades of tangled fortunes and an explosive secret from the past make for an unforgettable week.

TILLY BAGSHAWE - FLAWLESS - 28TH MAY
In the glitteringly ruthless diamond business, Scarlett Drummond Murray is a force to be reckoned with. As stunningly beautiful as the diamonds she works with, Scarlett is determined to make her mark on the industry with her fabulous jewellery creations. But to do so she must battle through a world that is steeped in greed and corruption.

Blazing a trail from London to Beverly Hills, Scarlett is plunged into the world of shady diamond dealers and the stunningly beautiful women for whom they all compete, in business and in bed. All of them are prepared to sacrifice everything in pursuit of that one, elusive, perfect stone. No matter what the cost. Will Scarlett be blinded by the brilliance of the temptation that surrounds her?

Or can she keep her nerve - and her principles - and make it to the top with her heart and her business intact?

LOLA JAYE - WHILE YOU WERE DREAMING - 28TH MAY
Lena has always kept her two sisters Millie and Cara in check. Beautiful but lazy Millie relies on her sister for everything. She needs to pull herself together and get a job but is constantly distracted by the string of men in her life! Cara runs a successful bar with her adoring boyfriend Ade.He can’t wait to start a family but Cara isn’t ready. Will she ever be? But when Lena is involved in an accident her sisters forget their own issues and rush to her side.As they desperately try to wake Lena from her deep sleep, they begin to learn things they never knew about themselves and discover their much-loved sister had a few secrets in her closet! A funny and heartwarming tale about family, love and living for the moment.