Name: Lily Does L.A. (Girls on Tour #2)
Author: Nicola Doherty
Format: ebook
Pages: 76 pages
Release date: 24th September 2014
Publisher: Headline
Teaser
Lily is an actress.
At least, that's what she tells people, even though she's currently
working in a call centre and her last big part was an ad for Sofa
Warehouse. So when she's invited to her cousin Alice's wedding in LA,
it's a dream come true. Alice's fiancé Sam is actually a Hollywood
agent; how can Lily fail to get talent-spotted?
There's only one
problem; not only is Lily banned from mentioning acting, parts or
producers to Sam, she's expected to spend the entire week doing
wedding-related prep with Sam's boring groomsman Jesse.
But Lily firmly believes that rules were made to be broken ...
Name: Dead Gorgous: A Mystery for D. I. Costello
Author: Elizabeth Flynn
Format: paperback
Pages: 288 pages
Release date: 17th October 2014
Publisher: Lion Hudson
Teaser
Kirsty Manners is young, beautiful and trying to make it as a model. As the in-house model for the Ivano King fashion house and girlfriend of Ian King, the man behind the label, she believes she is well on her way. But Kirsty is found dead in her flat one Sunday afternoon and D.I.Angela Costello is called to the scene. At first enquiries centre on the local gym where Kirsty, her dangerous ex-boyfriend, Darren Carpenter, and her jealous flatmate, Sandra Hodges, worked out. But things are more complicated. Ian King is considered to have lost his edge. Why then is he so buoyant about his latest collection for London Fashion Week? What about his new girlfriend, Eleanor Chandler, who openly admits to having a reason to wish Kirsty dead? Behind the gleaming smiles and flawless make-up of the glamorous fashion world, Angela’s enquiries uncover theft, drug-addiction, prostitution and imprisonment – and suddenly her own life could be in danger . . .
‘My wedding is ruined and my marriage is going to fail. And it’s all your fault!'
LA romcom writer Mia Valentina has it all; money, success, a tanned and toned body, golden blonde hair and a string of sexy lovers. She’s almost forgotten her previous self: plain old Mia Harrison. Until a wedding invitation arrives requesting (demanding!) her presence as chief bridesmaid at her younger sister Belle’s upcoming nuptials.
Mia’s barely been back in England before she’s accidentally injured the groom, unintentionally ‘cursed’ the wedding and been caught in a compromising position with her sister’s soon to be brother-in-law!
With the wedding of the year going dangerously off the rails, Mia has no time to waste – especially with sexy fireman and best man Leo on hand to help… Will she use all of her expert romance knowledge to save the day or will she just walk away? No one ever said a bad girl had to turn good…
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Top Ten Series I Want to Start
1. Beautiful series by Jamie McGuire
I heard so many good things about this series. The series comes highly recommended. The blurb and the cover are very appealing. I really want to give this a shot.
2. At the Cupcake Café series by Jenny Colgan
This one has been on my list for so long. Everthing about Jenny Colgan book description strikes my BUY ME nerve. It sounds so up my street and I can't wait to start reading them.
A copywriter at CBA in Soho’s Adland in the 1980’s, Ella is either
pretending to be a cat called Marmalade in order to pen letters from
him, or fending off advances from her boss, ageing Lothario, Peter
Richards. She had a less than idyllic childhood at the hands of a
damaged father and survives by treating life as a joke, while enduring
chauvinistic jibes to keep her job and enable her to pay her mortgage
and her frail Mum’s rent.
The one constant bright spot in her life is her cake-fuelled friendship with former colleague Adam Hart. When Ella takes some Chardonnay-inspired liberties with Marmalade’s
copy, the client sees it and threatens to fire the agency. Peter puts
Ella on the horns of a horny dilemma: either he fires her or sires her.
Given the country is in recession, she plays along and their ‘Little
Arrangement’ is born. Luckily, an accident temporarily renders her too
ugly for Peter to bed but he uses her appearance to bar her from a new
business pitch, enabling him to take the credit when her idea wins the
account. Ella is incensed and Peter pretends to fire her to teach her a
lesson. Treated like a dog by a bitch at the unemployment office, Ella
is so upset, she prangs her car. A young singer and professional
ego-maniac comes to her rescue. Tom-everyone-wants-a-piece-of me-Tyler
worms his way into her heart but when he claims to have spent the night
in a Photo-Me-Booth and she discovers a condom in his pocket, it proves a
prophylactic too far…
Buy your copy of I am Ella, Buy Me
here.
Hello Joan and welcome to Dreaming With Open Eyes. First of all, tell us a bit about yourself
I spent years penning letters from dogs. As an award-winning copywriter, you have to be adaptable! With a full-time job in a London advertising agency and a new baby, I did what any right-minded woman would've done and set up a comedy club. I even appeared on the same bill as Jo Brand. Once. As a university lecturer, I taught comedian Noel Fielding all he knows about advertising. I also tutored Wordsworth's great-grandson in the art: Buy a host of golden daffodils. Get a yellow one, free! I also wrote a column in a fashionable glossie about my young daughter. She is eighteen now and has never read a word of them. A Londoner, I now live beside the sea-side and eat mainly cream teas.
What can you tell us about I am Ella. Buy Me that will pique the reader’s interest?
'I am a ginger tom. I am a boy racer. I am a housewife. I am a pain in the arse.'
The opening lines set the tone for a funny, fast-paced novel set against a backdrop of 80s London where money trumps morals and lust is a must. As a girl in man's world, Ella battles her lothario boss, Peter on her way to the top. Faced with losing her job or sleeping with him, she turns to her friend, Adam. Can love help her go from a girl in the firing line to a woman calling the shots? Ella doesn’t always make the right choices – she’s as real as you or me. She’s Bridget Jones meets Peggy from Mad Men; it’s chic lit with extras.
Name: Coming Home to You
Author:
Liesel Schmidt
Format: ebook
Pages: 254 pages
Release date: 6th October 2014
Publisher: Carina UK
Teaser
When one door closes…
Zoë
and her fiancé Paul had everything ahead of them. So when Paul dies
suddenly, Zoë doesn’t recognise the life she’s left with. Helping a
friend by housesitting for a stranger is the last thing she wants to do –
but she can’t deny that she needs time away from the memories which
crowd her flat. So, collecting the keys, Zoë lets herself into her
temporary home.
…another one opens.
Surrounded by a
stranger’s belongings – his toothbrush, his favourite records, the
pictures on his walls – Zoë begins to build a picture of the flat’s
owner, Neil, who is away in the military. Driven by a need to know more,
Zoë begins writing to Neil and finds herself feeling an unlikely
connection with him. But while some people are destined to share our
lives forever, others are sent simply to help us on the way. And for
Zoë, a new life is just beginning…
Name: Geeks Go Greek (Summer Fling #4)
Author: Aimee Duffy
Format: ebook
Pages: 40 pages
Release date: 3rd July 2014
Publisher: HarperImpulse
Teaser
Part 4 of Summer Flings – a fun, flirty and laugh out loud rom com series of short stories.
Who needs fun when you can chill out in a stunning villa in Santorini all week and be pampered in every way possible? Ciara does.
After an unfortunate wardrobe faux par, challenging her friends to jet ski racing, and hooking up with an unexpected visitor, Ciara’s all about sex on the beach… the yacht… in the sea – wherever and whenever really! And she’s not alone. It’s the perfect fling in theory, but what happens when their Greek adventure comes to an end?