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Years after she first appeared in Barr's debut novel Backpack, mother of two Tansy is desperately restless. When she married Max, she thought they would still travel the world. But now he's happily settled down, and Tansy is drinking to excess and flirting with her son's teacher. So it is timely when Tansy's old backpacker friend, Elly, gets in touch, asking for her to help out for a month with orphans at her Indian ashram. Tansy soon finds herself rising at 5am and doing yoga, while wondering why she feels like such an inadequate mother in London but is able to bond with the young survivors of the tsunami. Meanwhile childless Alexia starts a blog where she expresses her desire to adopt a child. Although it's a story with a dark edge, somehow it ends up falling flatter than a poppadum.
Here's the trailer for Sophie Kinsella's Twenties Girl which has just been released through the author's Facebook page.
The Book Lovers' Appreciation Society is a collection of short stories from popular authors such as Sophie Kinsella, Cecelia Ahern and Jane Fallon, in honour of Breast Cancer Care. Tales include one about a woman planning not only what she wants to wear to a school reunion but who she wants to be and another about a newly divorced mother who takes her teenage daughter to Crete for a holiday, longing to be young again, until she remembers how awful it is to be 17. It's out in September.
In the gilded enclave of Wilshire, Rosalyn Barlow is waging a battle to silence the scandalous gossip that threatens her teenage daughter Caitlin's reputation while her self-made billionaire husband grows more distant in his early retirement. Newcomer Sarah Livingston has nothing but disdain for everyone and everything around her while she dreads having another child in a world she's come to resent. As she is pulled into the Barlow family's storm, the walls begin to close in around her marriage and the life she once thought she wanted. And for Jacqueline Halstead, who's just discovered her husband is under investigation for fraud, saving her family from ruin means doing the unthinkable - and shaking the Barlow family, Wilshire's insular community, and herself to the core.
Last month we previewed Amy Sohn's upcoming release Prospect Park West, about the competitive Park Slope mother set, revealing that she is writing the pilot for a HBO TV series based on the book and already planning its sequel for 2011. Here's the just-released synopsis for the book, out in September: "Brooklyn's famed Park Slope neighborhood has it all: sprawling, majestic Prospect Park; acclaimed public schools; historic brownstones; and progressive values. Among bohemian bourgeois breeders, claiming a stake in Park Slope has become a competitive sport. In the park, at the coffee shops, and the playgrounds of the neighbourhood, four women's lives come together during one long, hot Brooklyn summer. Melora Leigh, a two-time Oscar-winning actress, frustrated with her career and the pressures of raising her adoptive toddler, feels the seductive pull of kleptomania; Rebecca Rose, missing the robust sex life of her pre-motherhood days, begins a dangerous flirtation with a handsome neighborhood celebrity; Lizzie O'Donnell, a former lesbian (or "hasbian"), wonders why she is still drawn to women in spite of her sexy husband and adorable child; and Karen Bryan Shapiro finds herself split between two powerful obsessions: her four-year-old son's wellbeing, and snagging the ultimate three-bedroom apartment in a well-maintained, P.S. 321-zoned co-op building. As the women's paths intertwine (and sometimes collide), each must struggle to keep her man, her sanity ... and her play dates."
The trailer for Jessica Brody's upcoming novel Love Under Cover has just been released. The sequel to The Fidelity Files (which is now in development for a TV series), it sees Jennifer Hunter start up the Hawthorne Agency with five fidelity inspectors and give up the field practice herself - all in the name of love. Also known as The Good Girl's Guide to Bad Men for the UK market, the book is out in November. Aussies viewers of the trailer may want to keep their eyes out for a Daddo (Cameron plays the boyfriend Jamie).
Did you know? Sharon Osbourne's much-anticipated debut novel is called Fabulous! Due out in March 2010, it's reportedly set in the world of reality TV. Osbourne came to public attention when her family, including rocker husband Ozzy, were filmed for reality TV show The Osbournes. She's also been a judge on talent shows The X-Factor and America's Got Talent.
Supermodel Carol Alt follows up This Year's Model with her latest release Model, Incorporated, out in August. In the first novel, New Jersey waitress Melody Ann Croft is discovered by a fashion photographer. Renamed Mac Croft by her agent, she is thrust into the competitive world of professional modelling. Now in the latest release, Mac needs to learn how to expand her brand. The model for the Model, Incorporated jacket cover, Rianna, was chosen by public vote through an online contest. The series about model Mac is intended to be a trilogy.
Touted as the British version of The Devil Wears Prada, Me and Miss M, by British TV presenter Jemma Forte, is about life as a celebrity assistant. Fran is a struggling actress who takes a job as PA to Hollywood actress Caroline Mason while she is appearing in a West End production. But Fran's new job is far from glamorous as her days are spent fetching never-ending skinny lattes and being an all-round slave to the demanding diva. And when the job starts to cost Fran her friends and the man of her dreams she has to ask herself whether it's really worth it. The time has come for Miss M to find out a few home truths ... It's out in November.
Watch out for . . . Rock Chicks by Ronni Cooper which tells the story of rock group The Black Spikes and the women closely involved with the band. Cooper is the pseudonym for a newspaper columnist who once lived with a successful musician.
Cally Taylor's debut novel Heaven Can Wait is about a woman called Lucy Brown who breaks her neck the night before her wedding. Unable to accept a lifetime's separation from her soulmate Dan, Lucy decides to become a ghost rather than go to heaven and be parted from him. But it turns out things aren't quite as easy as that. Limbo is a grotty student-style house in North London and her flatmates are EMO-kid Claire and and train-spotter Brian. And to become a ghost Lucy has 21 days to find a girlfriend for IT geek Archie. When she discovers that her so-called friend Anna is determined to make a move on the heartbroken Dan, the pressure is really on. Heaven Can Wait, a finalist in the Romance Writers of America Stiletto Contest 2008, is out in October.
Izzy Simpson drives a Holden ute, is most comfortable wearing jeans and a singlet, her best friend is a kelpie dog called Tom and her hands are rough with calluses. The story picks up as Izzy is returning to Gumlea, her family's sheep and wheat farm in Pingaring, in south-west Western Australia, after working for the past two years as a farmhand over east. She has always dreamt of running her family farm but she has to convince her father Bill, who doesn't believe that type of work is for women. He is especially protective after losing his oldest daughter Claire in a farm accident. When Bill is burnt in a header fire, he leaves the boy-next-door Will in charge - the guy Izzy still hasn't forgiven for upsetting Claire before her death. Amid the romance, Izzy's fight to be taken seriously offers an insight into the heart of Australian farming - from the long hot hours at harvest time and rescuing stranded rams in torrential rain, to sharing beers at the pub below a gum tree and the community spirit which rallies when one of their own is down.
Interviews: Catch up with Fiona Palmer and find out why she'll always be a country girl.
Whoever said you can't choose your family never met Layla. When she married her high school sweetheart, Brett Foster, she finally got the big, loving family she'd always wanted. So when Brett asks for a divorce, she decides to sue him for the most valuable thing he's got - his family. But he's not giving them up without a fight. Their furious attempts to curry favour with the Fosters only succeed in driving wedges into the formerly close-knit family.
The idea for One Apple Tasted came to Josa Young while she was working as a magazine feature writer. Out in August, its synopsis says: "Meet Dora Jerusalem, features assistant to assistant features editor at Modern Woman, a glossy magazine whose employees are all thin, rich and beautiful. New to London and desperate to succeed, Dora is thrust into a whirlwind of parties and launches where she meets the striking Guy Boleyn. It should all be so simple - but a mix of jealous colleagues, disastrous weddings and a destructive family secret threaten to ruin the happy ending that Dora's always hoped for." Promoted as "one part family saga, one part classic love story and one part coming-of-age tale", the London-based Young explains the story starts in the 1980s, and then moves back in time to examine Dora's family - from her grandmother during World War II and her mother in the 1950s. Then it moves forward again to the 1990s and the present. You can read the first chapter on her website.
When Melody was nine, she was rescued from a burning house. But along with her possessions, the fire also wiped out her memories. Now decades later, the single mum is out on her first date in years. After fainting while taking part in a hypnotist show, she finds that many locked-away memories of her childhood are coming back to her in flashes. Melody slowly pieces together her past, realising her childhood was nothing like she thought it was. A real page-turner from a great storyteller - you'll want to finish it in one go.
In Never the Bride, by Cheryl McKay and Rene Gutteridge, Jessie Stone has been fascinated by weddings since she was a girl. She's been a bridesmaid 11 times, waved numerous couples off on their honeymoons, and shopped in more department stores for gifts than she cares to remember. But her own future husband seems elusive - the man she thought she would marry cheated on her and she secretly has a crush on her best friend Blake. Then God shows up one day, in the flesh, saying he wants to write her love story. The novel has been adapted from a screenplay written by McKay.
It's credit crunch time again in Ambition, by A. O'Connor. When the most glamorous store in Knightsbridge, Franklyns, becomes a casualty of the downturn, Stephanie Holden is appointed to transform its fortunes. She is pitted against ruthless executive Fiona Newman and womanising general manager Paul Stewart. For new arrival Rachel Healy, it's a long way to the top. Especially when there are distractions like Paul . . . and Hugo, Stephanie's wayward son. When Fiona falls in love with a stranger on a train and becomes the victim of a crime, a chain of events unfold that lead right to Stephanie's door.
Canadian-based spiritual educator Gordon Phinn has written An American in Heaven about a 19-year-old girl's experiences in the afterlife after she dies in a car crash. Its synopsis says: "Melanie may be a dead teenager but she's also an outrageously funny bad-mouthing bitch who doesn't care what you once thought about the afterlife, cause she's gonna give you the straight goods. No church crap. No science crap. No goody-too-shoes-gets-you-in crap. Be who you want. Think what you like. Do who you fancy. It's all free. All you have to do is die to get there ... It's chic-lit goes to the afterlife, and the afterlife will never be the same." You can catch Phinn reading the early chapters in his Scottish brogue on YouTube.
Cass, who runs an antique shop, is about to head off to Cyprus with her choir when her friend Fiona asks her to spy on her boyfriend Andy. Very reluctant to get involved, Cass wonders if Fiona is right to be suspicious when she spots him at the markets with a younger girl. Meanwhile Cass is fending off the unwanted attentions of an architect with a man bag, and dealing with the early arrival of her houseguests, her overbearing mother and her toyboy boyfriend. Not that things are going to be any more peaceful in Cyprus . . .
Sarah Challis examines the bonds of motherhood in Love and Other Secrets. Florence has never forgiven Jane for the circumstances of her birth. She was an accident, the product of Jane's only one-night-stand, and Flo does not want to know how hard her teenage mother fought to keep her. When Flo's own, carefully planned, baby arrives, and her glossy, controlled world is turned upside down, for the first time in her life she turns to her mother for help. While thrilled by the chance to finally prove herself to her daughter, the arrival of her grandson also brings painful memories flooding back for Jane.
Lisa Pelaprat says she drew on her experiences of "being English in America and being left high and dry in a foreign country" for her novel A Late Starter. Impulsive Ann, a 33-year-old English girl on the rebound, accepts a marriage proposal from a handsome American visiting Paris. But even on her honeymoon - before she heads to live with him in Washington - she begins to have doubts about the virtual stranger sleeping next to her. Maybe getting swept off your feet isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Christina Jones has another mystical romance out in August. In Moonshine, newly single and unemployed Cleo Moon moves to the hamlet of Lovers Knot. With its host of mad but delightful neighbours, she soon feels at home, especially when she meets the gorgeous Dylan. Through her new job as PA to a local millionaire, she takes on organising the annual harvest festival. Dusting off an old book on winemaking, she concocts a new harvest tipple - only this drink has unexpected magical side effects.
Summertime, the latest novel by Christian chick lit author Lynn McMonigal, centres on entertainment journalist Laura Bell. She's a single mother, and hasn't seen the father of her daughter, Joey Matthews, since he was a member of popular boy band, ZeroGravity. When Laura is asked to cover the band's reunion, she is forced to confront her past. Can she include Joey in her daughter's life, without compromising her new-found Christian faith?
Tess Tennant is moving away from London to the sleepy town where she grew up, to teach at the illustrious Langford College. She moves into a cottage with Francesca, a burnt-out lawyer, while round the corner lives her childhood best friend Adam. But rural life isn't quite how Tess remembers it. After a big night out in London with Adam ends in tears, Tess takes her class away on a trip to Rome. Soon Tess is being swept off her feet by a charming stranger who shows her round the city over a magical week and she forgets the complicated problems waiting for her at home. But when she returns to Langford, Tess finds a note from Adam saying he's leaving for a while. What happened between them when they were young?
Liz Lyons' Barefoot over Stones asks what would it take to destroy your closest friendship? Alison and Ciara become firm friends at a Dublin college. Ciara is all that Alison aspires to be - sassy, confident and fearless. Then a gorgeous medical student Dan enters their lives, and a betrayal threatens their closeness. It is only when tragedy strikes many years later that Alison and Ciara are able to discover the redemptive power of true friendship.
Table Manners is the sequel to Mia King's 2007 debut Good Things. Its synopsis says: "Deidre McIntosh finally has all the ingredients for a perfect life. She has her own line of cakes and cookies, and the perfect boyfriend, Kevin Johnson, one of Seattle's top bachelors. Creative, energetic and loving, Deidre is the person friends go to when they need a helping hand. But when Kevin's ex-fiancee, the sultry and successful magazine publisher Sabine Durant, suddenly appears in Seattle, it's Deidre who needs help. Already intimidated by Kevin's glamorous, moneyed world - and his sister, who wants Deidre out of Kevin's life - she knows she's no match for Sabine. Deidre turns to her friends for advice but finds they're having crises of their own. When her business begins to slip from her fingers, Deidre knows she must to do something to keep her career and her love life from imploding. Can everyone's favourite go-to person save herself?" Table Manners is out in August.
In Nadine Dajani's Cutting Loose, Ranya, Zahra and Rio are in Miami, working on a Latina magazine run by millionaire Georges Mallouk. Each carry baggage from their previous lives - Muslim Ranya fled Montreal after realising her husband is gay, Zahra left Boston after a career-ending mistake and still holds a torch for her old friend Georges, while Rio has risen from the slums of Honduras to the helm of the magazine and is having an affair with her boss' playboy brother. Dajani's first novel, Fashionably Late, was released in 2007.
Single mother Tess needs to leave London - and in a hurry. She heads up north to the seaside town Saltburn, moving into bridge engineer Joe's rambling old house as his housesitter. But who is she running from, why is she so broke and why does she detest the beach? Joe is an emotionally distant character who spends a lot of time overseas - with a girlfriend in every port - but he soon finds he misses being away from the home that Tess has been building with her toddler Em. But he's also keeping something from Tess - will they soon trust each other enough to share their secrets? Now you know that these two are going to get it together but it takes nearly 500 pages of often mind-numbing tedium to get there. Perhaps the only question readers really need answered is why was this book so boring and slow?
The Chicklit Club's newest team member, Xiu Ting Low, reveals her All-Time Favourites.
From death and dealing with the loss of a loved one, to illness and injuries, the one theme these books have in common is you shouldn't read them without some tissues handy. Check out some of the best tearjerker titles in our revamped Dream Theme section.
When Izzy Rose, an Emmy Award-winning TV producer in San Francisco, fell in love with an irresistible Southern man named Hank, her world was turned upside down. When she said "I do", she also became stepmum to his two sons and packed her bags for a new life in Texas. The Package Deal: My (not-so) Glamorous Transition from Single Gal to Instant Mom reveals her struggles to hold on to her professional identity while reinventing the stepmother role in her own sassy way. Izzy, who herself was brought up in a stepfamily, even started her own support group, creating the Stepmother's Milk blog. She says: "Many of us have taken our sweet time finding the right man to marry and once we find him, he often comes with kids and ex-wife. The Package Deal."
British journalist Samantha Scott-Jeffries' first novel, I Do, I Do, I Do, sees Isabelle take off to Majorca after a humiliating mistake costs her her job. She plans to spend six months on the Spanish island, working as a wedding planner. If she can't make it work with a man, at least she can help make other women happy with theirs. But when love is in the air, things don't always go the way you plan. I Do, I Do, I Do is out in August and a sequel is in the works. Scott-Jeffries has previously published a non-fiction title on interior design.
Former music journalist Abby McDonald follows up her debut novel for teens, Sophomore Switch, with her first adult title, The Popularity Rules, about a music journalist. Its synopsis says: "Kat Elliot is no social butterfly: she's spent her life rebelling against phony schmoozing - and it's led her nowhere. Just as she's ready to give up her dreams and admit defeat, in steps Lauren Anderville. One-time allies against their school bullies, Lauren and Kat had been inseparable. Then one year later Lauren returned from summer camp - blonde, bubbly and suddenly popular, and Kat was left to face the world alone. Lauren finally wants to make amends by teaching Kat the secret to her success: The Popularity Rules. A decades-old rulebook, its secrets transformed Lauren that fateful summer. And so, tempted by Lauren's promises of glitzy parties and the job she's always dreamed of, Kat reluctantly submits to a total makeover - only to find that life with the in-crowd might have something going for it after all. But while Lauren has sacrificed everything to get ahead, is Kat really ready to accept that popularity is the only prize that counts?" The Popularity Rules is out in September. McDonald is working on her second adult book, The Good Girl's Guide to Deception, due out in 2010.
In Betrayal, by Sasha Blake (apparently a pseudonym for a well-known author), disgraced tycoon Jack Kent and his wife Innocence fight for supremacy over their vast empire. Meanwhile, their daughter, Emily, is determined to make her own luck; Claudia is desperate to escape the misery of her past and thinks she can through the man of her dreams; and adopted Nathan is out for revenge. It's due on shelves in July.
Hedge funds have become the topic du jour in chick lit books this year. Bad Money is the debut release from British businesswoman Louise Patten, who has served on many company boards. Her character, Mary Kersey, juggles her job as a high-flying management consultant with looking after her eight-year-old daughter Grace and keeping her husband's ancestral home in Suffolk in a decent state of repair. When Mary is recruited by the Treasury to investigate dodgy dealings at hedge funds, this brings her into the world of Alan Dove, CEO of a biotechnology company who wants to buy a cosmetics competitor, F-ACE. Ivan Strawe, head of mergers and acquisitions at Wolkenbank, is only too willing to find a way to lower the F-ACE share price with the help of a hedge fund. Patten, who is married to a former British Cabinet minister, is working on her second novel Golden Hoard. She reportedly began writing as a way to pass time on business travel trips. Bad Money is out in September.
Isla Fisher, who played Rebecca Bloomwood in the Confessions of a Shopaholic movie, has acted as cover girl for the latest cover of Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic Abroad. The re-release of the 2001 book, the second in the Shopaholic series, sees Rebecca head to New York with Luke (hence it's alternative title Shopaholic Takes Manhattan). Here's the latest synopsis: "For Rebecca Bloomwood, life is peachy. She has a job on morning TV, telling people how to manage their money - a subject on which she is an expert. Her bank manager is actually being nice to her, despite being just a tad overdrawn. And the icing on the brioche is that her boyfriend is moving to New York ... and has asked her to go with him. New York! The Museum of Modern Art! The Guggenheim! The Metropolitan Opera House! And Becky does mean to go to all these. Honestly. It's just that it seems silly not to check out a few other places first. Like Bloomingdales. And Saks. And that amusing little place she's been told about where you can sometimes get a Prada dress for $10. Or was it $100? Anyway, it's full of fantastic bargains. Shopaholic Abroad - because there just aren't enough shops in Britain."
Release Dates: Many of your favourite chick lit authors, including Emily Giffin, Carole Matthews, Chris Manby and Dorothy Koomson, have starting revealing their titles for 2010. Check out our continually updated list.
In Don't Tell Eve, by Airlie Lawson, Papyrus Press was a respectable publishing house - until Eve arrived. Told to turn the company's finances around, with the aid of her sadistic sidekick Hilary, she is soon revealed to be a devil, who doesn't know how to wear Prada. But she hasn't counted on interference from Jess, a woman with her own creative agenda. And there's also the small matters of a missing bad-boy celebrity chef, a radical management book, a notorious artist and a set of mysterious dolls. Don't Tell Eve is the debut novel from Lawson, who lives in Sydney and works in publishing. It's out in August.
In Sunnyside Blues, by Mary Carter, 25-year-old Andes Lane has spent the past nine years moving restlessly from place to place. She has barely had a chance to settle into her latest home, a houseboat on a Seattle lake, before her new life is upended by landlord Jay and his 10-year-old son, Chase. When Jay needs someone to take care of Chase temporarily, Andes agrees to accompany the boy to Sunnyside Queens, on a quest she's sure will prove fruitless. But in this unexpectedly welcoming city, Andes will confront the secrets she tried to leave behind and the lies that have kept her running.
Former New York columnist and TV writer Amy Sohn (Run Catch Kiss) says she's already working on a sequel to her new novel, Prospect Park West. The first book, out in September, is about four women - Lizzie, Rebecca, Karen and Melora - who are part of the mummy brigade in an upscale Brooklyn neighbourhood, Park Slope. Sohn reveals on her website that the book has been optioned for a television series - is this perhaps linked to the rumoured series on the same topic from Melrose Place and Sex and the City creator Darren Star?
S. J. Foster's self-published Champagne & Butterflies is about two privileged African-American sisters, Kyla and Kimari Fontaine. Raised by a CEO father and a former model/singer mother, the girls are known as the "Black Hilton sisters". Just one year apart in age, they are both on campus at Penn State. Sharp-tongued Kimari finds herself trying to hold on to a relationship with a soon-to-be pro football player while working to get her own star to rise. The more reserved Kyla is seeing resident doctor Vince but has some lingering feelings for an enticing old flame.
Jessia Brody's sequel to The Infidelity Files, Love Under Cover is being released in Britain under the title The Good Girl's Guide to Bad Men. It continues the story of undercover fidelity inspector Jennifer Hunter, who forms an agency and hires other women to test men's faithfulness so she can pursue a relationship with Jamie. It's out from October.
Sports journalist and author Alison Kervin talks about fame, WAGS and her latest heroine who becomes a Celebrity Bride.
This follows the life of Lara Lington who is suddenly "haunted" by her great aunt Sadie. Sceptical at first, Lara eventually feels that Sadie is her guardian angel and helps Sadie find the one thing that she needs to rest in peace - her beautiful dragonfly necklace. In the process, Lara believes her great aunt was murdered, asks a handsome stranger on a date, and talks to Sadie (who no one else can see) so much that people start to think she has lost her mind - which is easy to believe as she hasn't been acting right since her break-up with her true love, Josh. Eventually, Lara discovers that someone in her family has been harbouring a secret that will ruin them and Lara, with the help of Sadie, decides to expose them and finally set things right. It is fun, feisty and an absolutely brilliant read. (AS)
For those looking for chick lit stories about urban Asian women, publisher Marshall Cavendish is publishing an Asian Chic series in the region. Here's the first of the titles . . .
Amazing Grace, by Tara FT Sering, of the Philippines, is about teacher Grace Lim, who thinks she's finally found the one when Mr-Blind-Date-No.7, Mike, proposes. But Mike has to relocate from Manila to Singapore because of work. With Mike's leggy blonde colleague Kaela appearing in every photo that he uploads online, Grace decides to make a surprise visit to Singapore - but is she ready for what she will find? Sering is a newspaper columnist and magazine managing editor.
In Undercover Tai Tai, by Maya O. Calica, book researcher Amanda Tay is a loner. But when a celebrated tai tai (a wealthy socialite wife) disappears off a luxury cruiser one evening, Amanda's quiet life is sent into a tailspin. A chance meeting with brooding intelligence officer Brian sees her become an undercover operative, hired to investigate the case. With a team of experts to help her - including a crime-fighting chihuahua - Amanda goes about solving the mystery disguised as a tai tai in designer outfits, false eyelashes and high heels. Calica is a magazine editor whose novel, The Break-up Diaries, was a bestseller in the Philippines.
Noelle Chua's debut, Mrs MisMarriage, is about Harvard literature scholar Audrey Lee, whose glamorous life is turned upside down when her new boyfriend proposes marriage. Suddenly she is wed-locked into a life she never wanted, that of an expat wife and homemaker in her hometown Singapore - just as there's lots of other interesting men on the horizon.
In Keshara Young's The Love of Her Life, a chance meeting with the wife of her first love, pilot Chee Pin, makes newly wed Sam wonder if she chose to marry the right man. She reconnects with Chee Pin, wondering whether she should now choose him over husband David Chang and his billions. The Love of Her Life is the first in a series of three, to be followed by The Dreamcatcher and The Keeper of Secrets.
In Ten Easy Steps, by Lum Kit Wye, which won the Asian Chic Writing Competition, will be published later this year.
In case you missed this title when it was first released two years ago, attorney Sara Angelina's modern take on the Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet romance is back on shelves with a fresh cover later this year. In The Trials of the Honorable F. Darcy, Judge Fitzwilliam Darcy is ready to hang up his black robe and return to the life of a country gentleman - until he meets attorney Elizabeth Bennet. Tempers and sparks fly in the haughty judge's courtroom as the two match wits and try to fight their overwhelming attraction. Then Darcy and Elizabeth are thrown together at an international conference.
To mark the end of the decade, the Chicklit Club is compiling the Ultimate 100 Chicklit Collection - the top 100 must-read books that most define the genre. The list will be unveiled in December and we're asking our readers to help us. If you have a suggestion about which books should be included, email us.
Sports journalist and author Alison Kervin talks about fame, WAGS and her latest heroine who becomes a Celebrity Bride.