Jilly Cooper

    Melanie Blake’s The Thunder Girls is a good old-fashioned blockbuster in the vein of the late greats, Jacqueline Susann, Jackie Collins, Shirley Conran, Jilly Cooper. So, what’s not to love, really? Centering around the proposed reunion of four members of an 80s’ girl band, Chrissie, Roxanne, Anita and Carly, thirty years after they … Continue readings →

Tags : 80s' girl bands, band reunions, blockbusters, eighties' girl bands, Jackie Collins, Jacqueline Susann, Jilly Cooper, Melanie Blake, Pan Books, Shirley Conran, The Thunder Girls

    When you read a Jill Mansell novel you know you’re in a pair of safe hands. Overflowing with charming characters, interesting plot threads and great locations, with more than a sprinkle of romance, wit and comic relief, Mansell’s books are tightly written and wonderfully realised. Her latest work, It Started with a Secret, thankfully, … Continue readings →

Tags : comedy of errors, Cornwall, feel good, Headline, It Started with a Secret, Jill Mansell, Jilly Cooper, romance, romantic drama, St Carys, St Ives

  Best-selling author Ali McNamara takes us away on deliciously entertaining adventures in her novels. In Secrets and Seashells at Rainbow Bay, her latest book, we follow single mother Amelia Harris and her young son Charlie as they embark on a veritable rags-to-riches journey, from borderline poverty to life in a medieval castle on the … Continue readings →

Tags : Ali MacNamara, Ali McNamara, Brown fiction, Chestford Castle, Jilly Cooper, Joanna Trollope, Little, Northumberland castles, Rainbow Bay, romantic fiction, Secrets and Seashells at at Rainbow Bay, Sphere fiction, women's fiction