Chick Lit
Taking Charge – Mandy Baggot
Taking Charge
Mandy Baggot
Is going back Robyn’s only way forward?
American-born Robyn Matthers is going home. With her dad in hospital, his roadhouse in ruins and the ice hockey team slipping down the league, she needs to take charge. But does she have the strength to do it?
Cole Ryan is a hockey player on a personal mission. He’s tall, dark, hot and Robyn’s noticed! But can she trust her feelings – or his? And what will Cole do when he finds out the truth about her?
With an ill father, a trailer trash step-mom and ex-boyfriend Brad desperate for another chance, does Robyn have time to contemplate a relationship? Can she start again? Does she really want to? And can two people really fall in love in three days?
Kissing the Cotton Clouds – Michela O’Brien
Kissing the Cotton Clouds
Michela O’Brien
When arty Livy falls for her sister’s boyfriend, she knows her dreams are unlikely to come true…
Sensitive Seth thinks he has hit the jackpot when the girl of his dreams finally looks his way…
While laidback Aidan is every girl’s hero.
Fast forward twenty-five years as carefree youth turns into adulthood responsibilities, relationships begin and end, music and fashion change, and life moves on with its successes, failures and heartaches. As the friends grow up, they discover life rarely turns out the way you imagined it at fifteen.
The rites of passage through years are eerily familiar to every 1980s teenager in this moving, heartfelt novel.
The Love Letter – Fiona Walker
The Love Letter
Fiona Walker
Can fate be signed, sealed and delivered?
When Allegra North parted from first love Francis after a decade together, she poured all her regret into a letter. He didn’t reply. A year later, her job brings her back to the beautiful Devon coast where romance first blossomed and she hopes that they can start a new chapter.
As summer storms circle, the exes juggle rebellious parents, vengeful family members and a very reluctant celebrity author who holds the key to everybody’s future…
The Love Letter is a wonderfully warm comedy of mistaken identities, new loves and old flames.
Pear Shaped – Stella Newman
Pear Shaped
Stella Newman
If you found yourself glued to David Nicholls’s One Day or belting out the lyrics to Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black then you’ll love this book.
Girl meets boy.
Girl loses boy.
Girl loses mind.Sophie Klein walks into a bar one Friday night and her life changes. She meets James Stephens: charismatic, elusive, and with a hosiery model ex who casts a long, thin shadow over their burgeoning relationship. He’s clever, funny and shares her greatest pleasure in life – to eat and drink slightly too much and then have a little lie down. Sophie’s instinct tells her James is too good to be true – and he is.
An exploration of love, heartbreak, self-image, self-deception and lots of food. Pear Shaped is in turns smart, laugh-out-loud funny and above all, recognisable to women everywhere.
Johnny Be Good – Paige Toon
Johnny be Good
Paige Toon
If your boss was the hottest rock star on the planet, would you mix business with pleasure?
I’m Meg Stiles. This is my leaving party. And that song we’re making a mockery of? That’s written by one of the biggest rock stars in the world. And I’m moving in with him tomorrow. Seriously! I am not even joking.
Well, maybe I’m misleading you a little bit. You see, I haven’t actually met him yet…
No, I’m not a stalker. I’m his new PA. His Personal Assistant. And I am off to La-La Land. Los Angeles. The City of Angels – whatever you want to call it – and I can’t bloody believe it!
Celebrity PA to wild boy of rock Johnny Jefferson, Meg’s glam new life in sun-drenched LA is a whirlwind of showbiz parties and backstage passes. Cool, calm Christian, in town to write his famous friend’s biography, helps keep Meg’s feet firmly on the ground. But with Johnny’s piercing green eyes and a body Brad Pitt would kill for, how long will it be before she’s swept right off them again?
Positively Yours – Amanda Hearty
Positively Yours
Amanda Hearty
Beth Prendergast has fallen hook, line and sinker for her boss. Tom Maloney is everything she wants in a man and they seem made for each other. But when Beth discovers that she is pregnant Tom makes it clear that a baby was never part of his plan. Is Beth really ready to take on motherhood all on her own?
Grace Miller’s life changed when she met and fell in love with an American, Ethan. A house near the beach in sunny San Diego is a far cry from the small terraced house where she grew up in North Dublin. But when Ethan’s firm offers a transfer to Ireland, Grace is unsure about moving back home and all the family pressure it will bring.
Erin Delaney has the perfect marriage, but still yearns for one thing – a child. Her husband John reassures her constantly that this will happen in good time. But Erin’s obsession with falling pregnant is getting worse and worse and soon puts a strain on their relationship.
As Beth, Grace and Erin face big choices and changes of the heart, they soon realize their lives will never be the same again.
Baby Be Mine – Paige Toon
Baby Be Mine
Paige Toon
‘He’s not mine, is he?’ That’s the question I fear the most. You see, I have a secret. My son is not fathered by my boyfriend, but by one of the most famous rock stars that ever lived. And he doesn’t even know it.
One-time celebrity personal assistant to wild boy of rock Johnny Jefferson, Meg Stiles is now settled and living in the south of France with her doting boyfriend Christian and their son Barney. But they’re living a lie – a lie that will turn their lives upside down and inside out – because as Barney reaches his first birthday, Meg can no longer deny that her son is growing to look more and more like his rock star father every day, and less and less like Christian, and sooner or later, the world is going to realise…
The Stag and Hen Weekend – Mike Gayle
The Stag and Hen Weekend
Mike Gayle
The Stag and Hen Weekend is the story of Phil and Helen, a couple in their thirties about to commit their lives to one another… that is of course if they can just manage to get through their respective stag and hen weekends (his: Amsterdam; hers: a country house and day spa in the Peak District) without falling apart.
Told in the unique form of two separate stories that have common characters as well as themes and conclusion, The Stag and Hen Weekend can be read from front to back or from back to front putting the reader in the driver’s seat as to which story they wish to read first. Feisty, fun and thought provoking.
Mile High Guy – Marisa Mackle
The Mile High Guy
Marisa Mackle
Welcome on board, Ladies and Gentlemen!
Mingling with rich and famous first class passengers is all in a day’s work for Katie. But when she meets a gorgeous, eligible TV star on board a transatlantic flight from New York to Dublin, her whole word is turned upside down.
Adam is everything a woman could want and more. But why is he insisting on keeping their relationship a secret? And is really a member of THAT club?
Bad Sisters – Rebecca Chance
Bad Sisters
Rebecca Chance
Three sisters, one deadly secret.
Deeley is the fake wife of a gay Hollywood hunk. But now her contract is up, and Deeley is left penniless and alone. Devon is married to rugby-hunk Matt, and hosts her own TV cookery show. But behind her buxom facade, Devon is desperately lonely. Maxie is politician’s wife, and fiercely ambitious. So when Deeley threatens to expose their past, just how far will Maxie go to keep it hidden?
Confessions of a Karaoke Queen – Ella Kingsley
Confessions Of A Karaoke Queen
Ella Kingsley
Maddie Mulhern is suddenly in charge. Her parents – former 80s pop duo Pineapple Mist – have left on a nostalgia tour, entrusting her to manage their struggling karaoke bar, Sing It Back. Panicking over the finances, Maddie takes a gamble: she signs up for a fly-on-the-wall reality TV series. With her faithful staff (divalicious drag queen Ruby, shy barman Simon and wannabe actress Jasmine) she’ll transform the bar into a huge success. Right?
Executive Producer Evan Bergman known that scandal sells. It’s no coincidence that he hires cool, attractive Nick Craven as the TV show’s director. Evan wants drama on screen – and he’ll do anything to get it.
As the series builds to a live finale, will Maddie see the truth in a Careless Whisper? Will Nick be able to keep his Poker Face? One thing’s for sure: we all do things at karaoke we live to regret…
Tracy’s Hot Mail – T. A. Belshaw
Tracy’s Hot Mail
T. A. Belshaw
Tracy is the new girl in the office. A sassy nineteen year old with an eye for cloned fashion and an ear for the latest gossip, she reveals all in a series of emails written to her friend, Emma. Tracy doesn’t spare anyone’s blushes as she dishes the dirt on her friends, family, and foes. If something is worth hearing, it is worth telling…
Everyone gets the Tracy Treatment, her benefit-fiddling father, her porn obsessed boyfriend, even her pocket billiards champion boss. Not forgetting the serial bum pincher and his latest conquest, the office tart.
Behind Tracy’s wide eyed innocence and reassuring smile lies a muck spreader of the highest calibre.
No secret is safe.
Strings Attached – Mandy Baggot
Strings Attached
Mandy Baggot
Caterer George Fraser has a mission. She’s going to prove everyone wrong. Ambitious owner of catering firm Finger Food and black sheep of her family, she’s determined to succeed in business where she’s so far failed in her personal life. Asked to cater for gorgeous rock star Quinn Blake’s after-show party, her life suddenly takes a turn for the dramatic.
Magnetically drawn together, George and Quinn embark on a relationship that no one must know about. But is Quinn everything he seems or is there more to his star life than he’s telling her?
Things hot up when George is invited to the wedding of the millennium and her integrity very soon becomes compromised. With celebrity obsessed colleague Marisa in the mix and her beloved Adam spending more time in her life, can George keep her secrets and hold on to her ambition, or will love finally get in the way?
I Heart Vegas – Lindsey Kelk
I Heart Vegas
Lindsey Kelk
After her first standalone novel, The Single Girl’s To-Do List, Lindsey returns with a sparkling and romantic new novel in the I Heart series.
Angela Clark loves her life in New York. She a Brit who’s conquered the Big Apple. Unfortunately, she’s also a Brit who’s lost her job. And when, just a couple of weeks before Christmas, the immigration department gets wind of this, Angela needs to find a new job urgently. Or a husband. And she doesn’t think her boyfriend Alex will be keen.
A girls’ weekend in Vegas with her best friend Jenny seems the perfect way to forget her troubles. From the minute they arrive Angela is swept up in a whirl of cocktails, outrageous outfits, late nights and brushes with the chapel of love. But rather than escaping trouble, Angela is up to her neck in it….
But what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas – right?
With a bonus Angela’s Guide to Vegas – the ultimate city break guide!
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