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Carole Matthews
Carole Matthews is an international bestselling author of hugely successful romantic comedy novels. Her unique sense of humour has won her legions of fans and critical acclaim all over the world. In the UK, her books include Let's Meet on Platform 8, A Whiff of Scandal, More To Life Than This, For Better, For Worse, The Sweetest Taboo, and With or Without You. A Minor Indiscretion and A Compromising Position both reached the Top 5 in the Sunday Times bestseller chart in the UK. You Drive Me Crazy reached number 8 in the original fiction charts. The novel Welcome To The Real World was shortlisted for RNA romantic novel of the year 2007. Her latest book The Difference a Day Makes is out in January in hardback, and All you need is Love is out in January in paperback. It's a Kind of Magic, The Chocolate Lovers' Club and its sequel, The Chocolate Lovers' Diet are all out now in paperback. In the USA, the hilarious For Better, For Worse was selected by one of America's top TV books clubs Reading with Ripa on LIVE with Regis and Kelly as their book of the month. As a result it went straight into the USA Today and New York Times Extended bestseller lists. Her other books currently available in America are Let's Meet on Platform 8, Bare Necessity, More To Life Than This, The Sweetest Taboo, A Minor Indiscretion - the rights of which have been sold to Hollywood - and With or Without You. Welcome To The Real World is out now. She is currently published in 24 different countries. The Chocolate Lovers' Club is out now in America it is published by St Martin's Press. In 2006 Carole co-edited - with writer Sarah Mlynowski - two new editions of the hugely popular Girls' Night In charity series called Girls' Night Out - one for the USA and one for Canada. All proceeds go to War Child. Carole has presented on television and is a regular radio guest. When she's not writing novels, television or film scripts she manages to find time to trek in the Himalayas, rollerblade in Central Park, take tea in China and snooze in her garden shed in Milton Keynes which is near London, England.
Available Books by Carole Matthews
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Summer Daydreams
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780751545432
RRP: $22.99
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Wrapped Up In You
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780751545098
RRP: $22.99
A Christmas fling, or has Janie found the real thing? Thirty-something hairdresser Janie Johnson's single status is a constant source of gossip for her friends and clients. So after too many nights in with her cat, a blind date disaster and news that her ex is getting married, Janie realises it's time to do something dramatic with her life.
It's time for an adventure! Leaving winter b...
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Summer Daydreams
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781847444578
RRP: $45.00
Nell McNamara never paid attention in school, spending most of her time daydreaming. Now almost thirty, Nell and boyfriend Olly are working back-to-back shifts just to make ends meet as they care for their adorable four-year-old daughter, Petal. But Nell can't help but wonder: is life passing her by?
So when the chip shop she works in needs a makeover, she jumps at the chance to help out. Wit...
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Wrapped Up In You
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781847444714
RRP: $29.99
A Christmas fling, or has Janie found the real thing?
Thirty-something hairdresser Janie Johnson's single status is a constant source of gossip for her friends and clients. So after too many nights in with her cat, a blind date disaster and news that her ex is getting married, Janie realises it's time to do something dramatic with her life.
It's time for an adventure!
Leaving winter b...
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Wrapped Up In You
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781847444721
RRP: $49.99
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The Only Way is Up
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755373796
RRP: $22.99
What do you do when there s nothing left to lose?
Lily and Laurence Lamont-Jones had it all: lavish holidays in exotic locations, a top private school for their two children and a beautiful home in the Buckinghamshire countryside.
Then Laurence loses his job, and their house and all their belongings are repossessed. With nowhere else to go, the family move into a flea-ridden council house on a n...
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It's Now or Never
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755354214
RRP: $22.99
Can it ever be too late to chase your dreams? When twins Annie and Lauren attend their sister Chelsea's fortieth birthday party at the Dorchester Hotel, they wonder why their lives are so totally different from their gorgeous, glamorous sister. Why is it that Chelsea's handsome husband is twirling her round the dance floor, with an expression of utter devotion on his face, while Annie'...
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That Loving Feeling
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755354177
RRP: $22.99
What would you do if your relationship lost its spark? Juliet Joyce has been happily married for twenty-five years. But with two grown-up children who treat the house like a hotel, a seventy-year-old mother who's just moved in and a father who's announced he's gay it's hardly surprising that her relationship with her husband Rick is beginning to suffer. Juliet's resigned to the...
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It's Now or Never
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780755354191
RRP: $60.00
If life begins at forty don't let it start without you! When twins Annie and Lauren attend their sister Chelsea's fortieth birthday party at the Dorchester Hotel, they wonder why their lives are so totally different from their gorgeous, glamorous sister. Why is it that Chelsea's handsome husband is twirling her round the dance floor, with an expression of utter devotion on his face, wh...
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Difference a Day Makes
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755345816
RRP: $22.99
William and Amy Ashurst are typical townies, dedicated professionals at the top of their tree, with two adorable children and an au pair who cooks, cleans and cares for them all. Then one day Will collapses on his way into work and he decides he's never going back. So it is that, three months later, Amy is standing outside Helmshill Grange, a sullen monstrosity of a house, deep in the Yorkshir...
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Minor Indiscretion
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755346615
RRP: $22.99
Sometimes temptation is impossible to resist... Happily married with three children, Ali Kingston can't believe that a quick cappuccino in a Covent Garden cafe will turn her life upside down. But then it isn't every day that a gorgeous street artist, fifteen years her junior, falls at her feet. When Ali's husband, Ed, finds out that she's spent time with another man, he's sure ...
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Sweetest Taboo
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755346622
RRP: $22.99
Falling in love isn't easy. Sadie Nelson ought to know - she's got two men to choose from and neither one is hassle-free. First there's Gill McGann, a Hollywood producer who's flown her from a grey day in London to sun-soaked LA in order to win her heart. He has more to offer Sadie than she could ever have imagined. Then there's gorgeous actor Tavis Jones, whose sense of fun ma...
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Compromising Position
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755346592
RRP: $22.99
Emily Miller has been betrayed. When her boyfriend posts compromising photos of her on the internet, her life goes into sharp decline. Emily is about to lose everything including the man she thought she loved. Her best friend, Cara, is determined to mend Emily's broken heart and she believes that a little magic is all that's required. But will Cara cast the right spell to get Emily out of ...
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Let's Meet on Platform 8
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755346608
RRP: $22.99
Teri is searching for Mr Right. She's been through Mr Lazy, Mr Greedy, Mr Completely Selfish and Mr Downright Pervert - but, as yet, no Mr Wonderful. That is, of course, until she is literally knocked off her feet by Jamie Duncan, as they rush to catch their train home from Euston station: the18.07 from platform 8. Soon love blossoms and commuting takes on a whole new meaning. But one thing th...
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All You Need Is Love
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755345779
RRP: $22.99
This is a romantic comedy set in Liverpool about Sally Freeman - a twenty-something single mum and superwoman - and her bid to make her world a better place. Hopelessly in love with her is Johnny - an artist with not a penny to his name - and Spencer Knight - a rich city slicker with a Porsche and a penthouse apartment. Sally wants to improve the dreary estate where she lives and she enlists the h...
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Difference a Day Makes: You never know when your luck's about to change
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755345809
RRP: $29.99
William and Amy Ashurst are typical townies, dedicated professionals at the top of their tree, with two adorable children and an au pair who cooks, cleans and cares for them all. Then one day Will collapses on his way into work and he decides he's never going back. So it is that, three months later, Amy is standing outside Helmshill Grange, a sullen monstrosity of a house, deep in the Yorkshir...
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Microsoft Office 2007 Quicksteps
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780071599856
RRP: $35.95
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For Better, For Worse
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755339280
RRP: $22.99
Josie Flynn is in New York for the wedding of Martha, her American cousin. Having just been through a messy divorce, she s hardly in the mood to don a lilac bridesmaid s dress, especially when she thinks Martha is about to marry the wrong man. In fact, Josie is all for talking Martha out of what could be the biggest mistake of her life. Which is all very noble, until Josie meets Matt Jarvis and ap...
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It's a Kind of Magic
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755327676
RRP: $22.99
Carole Matthews brings a touch of magic to her sparkling new novel... When Emma's boyfriend Leo turns up at her special birthday dinner unforgivably late and horribly drunk, embarrassing her in front of her family, she decides enough is enough. Why can't someone just wave a magic wand over him and bring him back refurbished as a proper boyfriend and save her the trouble? But when Leo meets...
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More To Life Than This
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755339297
RRP: $22.99
Kate Lewis is thirty-five and feeling restless. Her husband Jeffrey is keen on gardening and golf; her children are obsessed with well-balanced diets; and Kate s main worry is when to do the ironing. There must be more to life than this!Enrolling on a T'ai Chi course at Northwood Priory with her best friend Sonia - and arranging for an au pair to look after Jeffrey and the children while she s...
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The Chocolate Lover's Club
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755335848
RRP: $22.99
Lucy Lombard can't resist it - rich, creamy, sweet, delicious chocolate. For her there's nothing it won't cure and she s not alone. Sharing her passion are three other addicts: Autumn, Nadia and Chantal. Together they form The Chocolate Lovers Club. They meet in their sanctuary, Chocolate Heaven, as often as they can, and with a cheating boyfriend who promises he ll change, a flirtatio...
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With or Without You
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755339303
RRP: $22.99
When Jake tells Lyssa it s not working, she knows he s not talking about the toaster. What she doesn't realise is that he has been seduced by another woman.Lyssa's immediate reaction is to sob into her pillow and wait for Jake to come home with his tail between his legs. But slowly she understands that's not an option. In a bid to escape, she embarks on a trekking holiday in Nepal. Her...
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The Chocolate Lovers' Diet
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755335879
RRP: $22.99
The feisty members of THE CHOCOLATE LOVERS' CLUB are back in a mouth-wateringly delicious new novel.
Lucy Lombard thought her 'Happily Ever After' was all sorted when her gorgeous boss finally declared his love for her, but when she catches him in bed with another woman it's time to call an emergency meeting of The Chocolate Lovers' Club. Inevitably, she's not the only mem...
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You Drive Me Crazy
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755309962
RRP: $22.99
Fallin In Love Can Be Bumpy Ride...
The last place Anna Terry expects to fall in love is in the waiting room of her divorce lawyer's office. But that's where she meets Nick Diamond and Cupid's arrow strikes. If only they were in the mood Anna's had more than her fair share of heartache. Her first marriage ended before her pregnancy was over, and her second husband has disappeared...
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Photoshop: Quicksteps
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780072261592
RRP: $34.95
Here is the fastest, easiest way to learn Photoshop - all in full color. Inside, color screenshots and brief instructions show and explain how to use Photoshop. Follow along and learn to use the drawing and painting tools, retouch photos, add and manipulate text, use layers, create special effects, and more. Preparing art for print and the Web is also covered. Each chapter's "How to" l...
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Adobe Acrobat 7 Quick Steps
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780072260328
RRP: $32.00
Here is a full-color, fast reference to the most popular electronic document exchange program - Adobe Acrobat.
Release 7 is a major upgrade with new features that include enhanced PDF creation, watermarks, improved collaboration functions, digital signature capability, and more. All these and more features are covered in the book. Color screenshots with callouts show and explain exactly what you&...
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QuickSteps: Microsoft Outlook 2003
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780072232271
RRP: $34.95
'QuickSteps' series editors Martin and Carole Matthews each have more than thirty years of computing experience....
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The Chocolate Lovers' Club
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780312376734
RRP: $18.95
Together with her fellow addicts--Autumn, Nadia, and Chantal--Lucy Lombard forms a select group known as The Chocolate Lovers' Club that gets together at their sanctuary, a caf called Chocolate Heaven, whenever there is a crisis in one of the member's lives, including a gambling husband, cheating boyfriend, flirtatious boss, and a loveless marriage. Reprint. 30,000 first printing....
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The Sweetest Taboo
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780060595623
RRP: $14.95
Englishwoman Sadie Nelson gets more than she had bargained for when she finds herself torn between two very different men--Gil McGann, a Hollywood producer with a difficult ex, and fun-loving, handsome actor Tavis Jones--amid the glitter of the Los Angeles film industry. Original....
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Bare Necessity
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780060532147
RRP: $18.95
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Facebook for Seniors Quicksteps
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780071772655
RRP: $25.95
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A Compromising Position
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780747267690
A brilliant blend of bad boys, betrayal and bare-faced cheek . . .
Emily Miller has been betrayed. When her boyfriend posts compromising photos of her on the internet, her life goes into sharp decline. Emily is about to lose everything - including the man she thought she loved.
Her best friend, Cara, is determined to mend Emily's broken heart and she believes that a little magic is all tha...
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A Compromising Position
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755303342
A brilliant blend of bad boys, betrayal and bare-faced cheek . . .
Emily Miller has been betrayed. When her boyfriend posts compromising photos of her on the internet, her life goes into sharp decline. Emily is about to lose everything - including the man she thought she loved.
Her best friend, Cara, is determined to mend Emily's broken heart and she believes that a little magic is all tha...
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All You Need Is Love
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780755345755
This is a romantic comedy set in Liverpool about Sally Freeman - a twenty-something single mum and superwoman - and her bid to make her world a better place. Hopelessly in love with her is Johnny - an artist with not a penny to his name - and Spencer Knight - a rich city slicker with a Porsche and a penthouse apartment. Sally wants to improve the dreary estate where she lives and she enlists the h...
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All You Need Is Love
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755345762
This is a romantic comedy set in Liverpool about Sally Freeman - a twenty-something single mum and superwoman - and her bid to make her world a better place. Hopelessly in love with her is Johnny - an artist with not a penny to his name - and Spencer Knight - a rich city slicker with a Porsche and a penthouse apartment. Sally wants to improve the dreary estate where she lives and she enlists the h...
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Carole Matthews Omnibus
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755300761
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For Better, For Worse
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780747263272
An uproarious story of love, life and why we keep saying "I Do" . . .
Josie Flynn is in New York for the wedding of Martha, her American cousin. Having just been through a messy divorce, she's hardly in the mood to don a lilac bridesmaid's dress, especially when she thinks Martha is about to marry the wrong man. In fact, Josie is all for talking Martha out of what could be the b...
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For Better, For Worse
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780747273721
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For Better, Or Worse
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780380820443
Josie, a British divorcee who, on the plane to New York to attend her cousin's wedding, meets the most delightful man, if only she could find him again . . .
Josie Flynn is in New York for the wedding of Martha, her American cousin. Having just been through a messy divorce, Josie's hardly in the mood to don a lilac bridesmaid's dress, especially when she thinks Martha is about to marr...
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It's a Kind of Magic
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780755327652
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It's A Kind Of Magic
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755327669
Carole Matthews brings a touch of magic to her sparkling new novel...
When Emma's boyfriend Leo turns up at her special birthday dinner unforgivably late and horribly drunk, embarrassing her in front of her family, she decides enough is enough. Why can't someone just wave a magic wand over him and bring him back refurbished as a proper boyfriend and save her the trouble? But when Leo mee...
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It's Now or Never
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755354207
If life begins at forty don't let it start without you! When twins Annie and Lauren attend their sister Chelsea's fortieth birthday party at the Dorchester Hotel, they wonder why their lives are so totally different from their gorgeous, glamorous sister. Why is it that Chelsea's handsome husband is twirling her round the dance floor, with an expression of utter devotion on his face, wh...
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More To Life Than This
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780747263210
Married with two kids, Kate Lewis is about to find out if there's - 'More To Life Than This'.
Kate Lewis is thirty-five and feeling restless. Her husband Jeffrey is keen on gardening and golf; her children are obsessed with well-balanced diets; and Kate's main worry is when to do the ironing. There must be more to life than this!
Enrolling on a T'ai Chi course at Northwoo...
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Only Way is Up
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755373789
What do you do when there s nothing left to lose?Lily and Laurence Lamont-Jones had it all: lavish holidays in exotic locations, a top private school for their two children and a beautiful home in the Buckinghamshire countryside. Then Laurence loses his job, and their house and all their belongings are repossessed. With nowhere else to go, the family move into a flea-ridden council house on a noto...
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That Loving Feeling
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780755354153
Juliet Joyce has been happily married for twenty-five years. But with two grown-up children who treat the house like a hotel, a seventy-year-old mother who's just moved in and a father who's announced he's gay it's hardly surprising that her relationship with her husband Rick is beginning to suffer. Juliet's resigned to the fact that the only romance she's going to get is f...
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That Loving Feeling
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755354160
What would you do if your relationship lost it's spark? Juliet Joyce has been happily married for twenty-five years. But with two grown-up children who treat the house like a hotel, a seventy-year-old mother who's just moved in and a father who's announced he's gay it's hardly surprising that her relationship with her husband Rick is beginning to suffer. Juliet's resigned t...
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The Chocolate Lovers' Club
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780755335824
'The Chocolate Lovers' Club' brings together four very different women with one thing in common: they can't resist chocolate. This is an irresistible novel for anyone who wishes they were a member!
Lucy Lombard can't resist it rich, creamy, sweet, delicious chocolate. For her there's nothing it won't cure from heartache to a headache and she's not alone. Sharing h...
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The Chocolate Lovers' Club
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755335831
'The Chocolate Lovers' Club' brings together four very different women with one thing in common: they can't resist chocolate.
This is an irresistible novel for anyone who wishes they were a member!
Lucy Lombard can't resist it rich, creamy, sweet, delicious chocolate. For here there's nothing it won't cure from heartache to a headache and she's not alone. Sharing...
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The Chocolate Lovers' Club
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755337811
The Chocolate Lovers' Club brings together four very different women with one thing in common: they can't resist chocolate. This is an irresistible novel for anyone who wishes they were a member!
Lucy Lombard can't resist it rich, creamy, sweet, delicious chocolate. For her there's nothing it won't cure and she's not alone. Sharing her passion are three other addicts: Aut...
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The Chocolate Lovers' Diet
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780755335855
The feisty members of The Chocolate Lovers' Club are back in a mouth-wateringly delicious new novel. Lucy Lombard thought her Happily Ever After' was all sewn up when her gorgeous boss Aidan declared his love for her, but she's just caught him in bed with another woman. As always, she's not the only one with problems Autumn's new boyfriend has yet to meet her parents, Nadia...
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The Chocolate Lovers' Diet
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755335862
The feisty members of The Chocolate Lovers' Club are back in a mouth-wateringly delicious new novel. Lucy Lombard thought her Happily Ever After' was all sewn up when her gorgeous boss Aidan declared his love for her, but she's just caught him in bed with another woman. As always, she's not the only one with problems Autumn's new boyfriend has yet to meet her parents, Nadia...
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The Sweetest Taboo
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755303359
Falling in love is never easy. Sadie Nelson ought to know - she's got two men to choose from and neither one is hassle-free.
First there's Gill McGann, a Hollywood producer who's flown her from a grey day in London to sun-soaked LA in order to win her heart. He has more to offer Sadie than she could ever have imagined . . . Then there's gorgeous actor Tavis Jones, whose sense of ...
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Welcome To The Real World
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780755327683
Fern Kendal dreams that one day her talent will be 'discovered' and that singing in the local pub with her oldest friend Carl will be nothing but a distant memory. There again, in the real world dreams like that never come true. Or do they? When she takes a job as PA to world famous opera singer Evan David, his flamboyant lifestyle, chauffeur-driven limousines and luxurious apartments coul...
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Welcome To The Real World
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755327690
Fern Kendal dreams that one day her talent will be 'discovered' and that singing in the local pub with her oldest friend Carl will be nothing but a distant memory. There again, in the real world dreams like that never come true. Or do they? When she takes a job as PA to world famous opera singer Evan David, his flamboyant lifestyle, chauffeur-driven limousines and luxurious apartments coul...
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Welcome To The Real World
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755337545
Carole Matthews brings us a spectacular novel filled with warmth, wit and romance.
Fern Kendal has the voice of an angel but, as a badly paid barmaid and pub singer, her talent is wasted. All she needs is a break, but in the real world she knows that'll never happen.
Evan David's exquisite tones have enthralled opera buffs throughout the world. But what Evan needs now is a break -- from...
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With Or Without You
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755309924
When Jake tells Lyssa it's not working, she knows he's not talking about the toaster - nor is her referring to their fourth failed attempt at IVF. What she doesn't realise is that he's having an affair with a girl at work. Lyssa is faced with two choices - sink or swim - and, after a fairly shaky start, she decides to swim with style . . . ...
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With Or Without You
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755309931
When Jake tells Lyssa it's not working, she knows he's not talking about the toaster - nor is her referring to their fourth failed attempt at IVF. What she doesn't realise is that he's having an affair with a girl at work. Lyssa is faced with two choices - sink or swim - and, after a fairly shaky start, she decides to swim with style . . . ...
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You Drive Me Crazy
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755309955
Falling In Love Is Seldom An Easy Ride . . .
The last place Anna Terry - single mother of two - expects to fall in love is in her solicitor's office while she is waiting to pick up her divorce papers, but that's where she meets Nick Diamond - a second-hand car dealer - and cupid's arrow strikes.
Without meaning to, she lies to Nick about having any children, and about her state of ...
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