Watch out for
Tasmina Perry’s Kiss Heaven Goodbye is about four schoolfriends who get into trouble during a break on a private island in the Bahamas when a boat boy's body is found washed up on the beach the morning after a drunken party.
Watch out for Claudia Carroll’s Personally I Blame it on the Fairy Godmother, coming in June. It’s about a TV host called Jessie whose perfect life falls to pieces. She is forced to move back home, to live with her stepmum and two evil stepsisters.
Promises to Keep, Jane Green’s next novel, which is out in June. Originally titled The Love Verb, it's about a sister who is diagnosed with breast cancer.
Claire Cook’s next novel, Seven Year Switch, which is about a woman whose content man-free existence is upset when her ex-husband comes back. It's out mid-2010.
Moonlighting by Kate Lace. It's about a police officer called Jess who works as an exotic dancer by night. It's one of the Little Black Dress releases in May.
Paige Toon's next novel, Pictures of Lily, which will be out mid-2010. It's about Lily who never gets over the older man, Ben, she met in Australia while she was a teenager. But he moved back to England to get married. Just as Lily gets engaged 10 years later, she bumps into Ben again - and finds out he's now single.
The story of a young-at-heart 75-year-old getting her wish to be 29 again in Adena Halpern’s new novel. 29 is out in June.
Famous Last Words from Annie Sanders, out mid-2010. It’s about a dressmaker who is told by the psychic Gabe that she doesn’t have a future. So Alice embarks on a reckless spree. But when the day of her prophesied demise comes - and goes – without her demise, Alice now has a hell of a mess to put right.
Belinda Jones’ Living la Vida Loca, out in May. Carmen and Beth are taking part in a reality TV show that will see them learning the tango in Argentina, the flamenco in Spain and the salsa in Cuba.
The Truth About You by Melissa Hill. A newborn baby has been abandoned on a cafe's doorstep. Could it have been Nina who was rejected by the father of her unborn child? Or was it actress Eva, who on the eve of her triumphant return home from LA, had a fling with a co-star? Or happily married Jess who may have rushed into something she really knows nothing about? It's out in July.
Louise Bagshawe’s next novel, Desire. It’s about a woman who wakes up the morning after her glamorous Thailand wedding to find her new husband dead in their bed, the murder weapon in her hand. But she doesn’t remember killing him.
Nicole Richie’s second novel, as yet untitled. It’s about a pop star, who is sick of life in the spotlight. She disappears into anonymity but neither her past, nor the paparazzi, will let her hide. It’s due out in August.
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me is the second adult novel from Sarra Manning, due out in April. It's about Neve who loses lots of weight for when the love of her life, William, returns from his LA sabbatical. But in the meantime her sister sets her up with a practice boyfriend, Max.
Emily Barr's next novel,The Perfect Lie, about a girl who flees to Venice to escape her dangerous past. It's due out in May.
Envy, a novel due out mid-2010 from TV presenter Coleen Nolan. Nolan, who was the youngest member of the Nolan sisters singing group from the 1980s, is writing about a TV presenter's friendships and fall-outs with her other female co-presenters.
The Wedding Planner, by Melanie la'Brooy. Soapie actress Sabrina is getting married; her estranged sister Mimi returns from overseas to be bridesmaid and wedding planner to the stars Claudia is hired to pull the whole day together. It's out mid-2010.
Jill Kargman's next novel Arm Candy about a nearly 40-year-old model who becomes a cougar when she trades in her older lover for the 28-year-old son of a well-connected political family. It's due out in May.
The second novel from Romantic Novelists' Association new writers' scheme award winner Allie Spencer. The heroine of The Not-so-secret Diary of a City Girl is banking analyst Laura whose electronic diary is accidentally uploaded on to the internet. It's out around April.
Linda Green's Things I Wish I'd Known. Recently divorced Claire takes a long, hard look at her life after finding a long-forgotten dream list she wrote at 15. It's due out mid-2010.
Possibly the longest title of next year - Bernadette Strachan's Why Do We Have to Live with Men?: Cat O'Connor is Asking Herself the Question on Every Woman's Mind... It's about four friends who make a pact that if they're not settled and married by 40 they will all live together.
Lucy Dawson's next novel What Every Woman Wants is about Kirsty, who makes a terrible mistake under pressure from her husband to have a baby. It's out February 2010.
Jenny Colgan's next release about a woman whose fiance quickly backs out of their engagement so she tracks down her exes. The Good, the Bad and the Dumped is due out in April 2010.
The words of wisdom from British It Girl Tara Palmer-Tomkinson. She's signed a two-book deal with Pan Macmillan for novels based on her "whirlwind life". The first novel, Inheritance - about the world of "private jets, parties and international intrigue" - is due out in late 2010.
