The Proposal

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Synopsis
Nadine Stefano is a high flying career woman. She has no time for relationships and having been recently promoted at work, she wants to make a good impression with her boss. At her sister's hen party Nadine meets Ethan who is one of the performers. She finds herself attracted to him and they end up talking that first night.
A few weeks later, the company Nadine works for are holding their annual convention at a luxury hotel away from home. Not having a date to take with her, and wanting to present the image of a settled and happy woman in a relationship, Nadine resorts to calling Ethan at the escort agency and asking him along. Theirs is a strong attraction, although there are various company politics and characters that stand in their way.
Will their meeting lead to love, despite seemingly different career choices, or will Nadine dump Ethan in order to pursue her career goals?

Dating Games

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Synopsis
Scarlett Harper’s glamorous visions of life as a personal assistant on an investment bank’s trade floor, aren’t quite working out the way she’d hoped. Where were the marriage proposals from rich hedge-fund bankers, and tickets to the front row at London’s Fashion Week? 

Newly-single and armed only with advice from well-meaning friends, Scarlett is thrust into the unfamiliar Singles Scene as she attempts to navigate through a minefield of disastrous dates with men who aren’t all they seem, steamy liaisons on the picturesque Greek island of Santorini, and extravagant parties in opulent English country manors. 

Will she ever meet her Mr Right and more importantly, will she ever fit into those size ten jeans again?  Follow the ups and downs of the dating game with Scarlett and her best friends, as they encounter hostile ex-wives, militant gym instructors, and eccentric relatives, helped along the way by copious amounts of wine and large bars of chocolate.

Picture Perfect

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For Lauren Tate, a high-powered TV producer, sex, lies, and scandal make for a great movie-of-the-week, but when she becomes the target of a smear campaign, even the most salacious of Hollywood’s tales can’t compare to her real life drama. With her soon-to-be-ex-husband leading the effort to sully her reputation, and her former assistant threatening to snatch her hard-earned position at Timeless Television out of her hands, Lauren’s perfectly planned life quickly begins to unravel at the seams.

Clawing her way back to the top of the TV food chain is no easy task, especially in an industry where backstabbing is a sport and gossip is a fulltime business. But Lauren learns just how cutthroat showbiz can truly be when the hottest scandal in Tinsel Town turns deadly and the Hollywood hunk who’s stolen her heart is missing in action. Can she salvage her career, her reputation, and her love life? Or will Hollywood be the death of her?

Head Over Heels

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Thirty-something teacher and professional shopper Grace has a passion for shoes. In fact they were responsible for her meeting her partner, Mark, when she speared his foot with one of her dangerously sharp heels whilst running for a train.

Mark is the other passion in her life, or so she thinks.... When he suggests they try for a baby - but is reluctant to tie the knot on their very long-term engagement - the cracks in her champagne lifestyle start to appear. As Mark becomes ever more controlling, Grace begins to see her blond and sexy boss, Tom, in a different light. A conventionally one-man woman who doesn't 'do' affairs, she suddenly finds herself in the midst of the sort of tangled lifestyle she has only read about in the celeb pages. Throw in the added complications of an untimely pregnancy, a case of mistaken identity and some pretty zany friends and Grace's life is thrown into turmoil. Retail therapy and even the comfort of her vast shoe collection can't help her out of this dilemma.....

Dearest Rose

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Synopsis
'You are a remarkable woman and you deserve all the happiness, contentment and love in the world. I, for one, know that I have never met anyone quite like you.'When Rose Pritchard turns up on the doorstep of a Cumbrian B&B it is her last resort. She and her seven-year-old daughter Maddie have left everything behind. And they have come to the village of Millthwaite in search of the person who once offered Rose hope. Almost immediately Rose wonders if she’s made a terrible mistake – if she’s chasing a dream – but she knows in her heart that she cannot go back. She’s been given a second chance – at life, and love – but will she have the courage to take it?

Pride and Prejudice Turns 200

Wishing Pride and Prejudice a happy 200th Birthday.

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” 

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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  Synopsis
 Elizabeth Bennet is the perfect Austen heroine: intelligent, generous, sensible, incapable of jealousy or any other major sin. That makes her sound like an insufferable goody-goody, but the truth is she's a completely hip character who ,if provoked, is not above skewering her antagonist with a piece of her exceptionally sharp, yet always polite, 18th-century wit. The real point of the book though, the critical question which will keep you fixated throughout, is: will Elizabeth and Mr Darcy hook up? Read this genuine all-time classic and discover the answer while enjoying a story that has charmed generation after generation.

Romatic Books by Men

I love chicklit.  Many authors hate that term with a passion (Find out more) but I love it. I embrace it, there’s nothing with the title. What is wrong perhaps is people’s perception of these books. They are viewed as being too fluffy and girly. What's wrong with that I say. Books are Books. If it sounds good, I'm reading it.


I read chicklit more than any other genre I must confess though. Not because, as people have suggested I’m simple minded but because I love the simplicity of chicklits.  They don’t spend pages and pages describing landscapes and facial expressions.  They are usually unpretentious, easily accessible and damn right enjoyable. My favorite books have always been those types of books where by the end, I’m tears or busting with laughter. For example Anybody Out There by Marian Keyes left such an impact on me that even after 5 years I look back and can feel those emotions creeping up again.

What I'm struggling with perhaps is what to call those romantic books by men. Surely I Chicklit is too girly and Manlit just sound wrong. These books are essentially Chicklit for guys but chicklit doesn’t fit neatly. From Harry in This Thirty Something Man to Jamie in Love From Both Sides, these books have captured my heart. I’m currently reading The Woman who Made Men cry and it seems my obsession is about to grow to an unhealthy amount.



 So I've come up with a new name and that name shall be GUYLIT. Yes I realise it does sound a tad bit dodgy but so did chicklit when I first heard it so maybe, just maybe GUYLIT might catch on. Fingers Crossed. Each week I will featured whichever one I'm reading and will review it accordingly.

Reading List

1)My Favourite Wife
2)The Importance of Being a Bachelor
3)William's Progress
4)Love, Sex and Tesco's Finest Cava
5)The Woman Who Made Men Cry
6)Love From Both Sides
7)An Idiot in Love
8)Finding Yourself In Sevile
9)The Accidental Proposal