Club Challenges
June
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Wedding Planners: What a romantic occupation! Wedding planners help create a gorgeous setting, ensure the day runs smoothly and calm jittery brides and bickering relatives. But sometimes they falter on the path to true love themselves.
CLUB CHALLENGE: Jean Stone's Second Chances seriesFollow the story of four friends who run a second-wedding planning business.
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For Better or For Worse - Diann Hunt Wendy's a wedding coordinator. Marco’s a divorce lawyer who opens his practice next door to her wedding chapel. How could these two possibly find common ground? |
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Revenge of the Wedding Planner - Sharon Owens Two friends run Dream Weddings until one has a crisis and runs off to have a fling. |
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I Do (But I Don’t) - Cara Lockwood Hyper-organised wedding planner Lauren learns that you can't plan everything, least of all love. |
April & May
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Yummy Mummies: It's official: woman are feeling the pressure to juggle motherhood, careers and still look perfectly groomed. These characters certainly do.
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Mummy Said The F-Word - Fiona Gibson Cait, a chaotic single mother of three, becomes agony aunt for a glossy magazine targeted at yummy mummies. |
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I Don't Know How She Does It - Allison Pearson Hedge-fund manager Kate Reddy is a frazzled mother of two who's trying to juggle too much. |
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Gucci Mamas - Cate Kendall Every day Mim Woolcott has to negotiate the Carpark Mafia and the Mothers Superior as she drops her children off at their prestigious school. And cracks are beginning to show in her perfect life. |
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2008
MARCH
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Magazine market: These books give a view inside a magazine's operations, from stylish staffers and egotistical editors, to fashion shoots and deadline dramas.
CLUB CHALLENGE: Find out if you have what it takes to be shoe editor or a feminist deputy with Chloe and Zoe in Stephanie Lessing's She's Got Issues and Miss Understanding.
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The Making of Mia - Ilana Fox When Jo Hill decides to give herself a makeover and become Mia, the magazine world and her boss at Gloss won't know what's hit them. |
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The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger Walk in Andrea Sachs' shoes as she tries to survive a year under demanding Runway editor-in-chief Miranda Priestley. |
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The Fashion Pack - Marion Hume Three friends run Joy magazine in New York, Paris and Sydney. |
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FEBRUARY
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Can't Buy Me Love: Think Valentine's Day was created to torment singles? These books are better than red roses any day.
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The Trouble with Valentine's Day
Private detective Kate Hamilton's Valentine's Day gets off to a bad start when her advances are rejected by a sexy man in a bar. |
Valentine's Day is Killing Me
An anthology of blind dates, dead bodies, sex toys and cancelled reservations on love's big day. |
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This is How it Happened - Jo Barrett Maddy is seeking revenge after her boyfriend of four years dumps her by email. |
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The Break-Up Club - Melissa Senate This tells the story of four people at different stages of breaking up. |
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Hating Valentine's Day - Allison Rushby A wedding photographer is visited by the ghost of Valentine's Day past, present and future. |
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JANUARY
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DEAR DIARY: It's that time of the year to turn to the first page of a new diary. Read about what some chick lit characters have written in theirs.
CLUB CHALLENGE: Go back to where it all began with Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones and her new year resolutions of what she will and will not do.
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The WAG's Diary - Alison Kervin Tracie Martin, Luton Town FC's longest-serving WAG, sets out to share her wisdom by writing the definitive rulebook. |
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Diary of a South Beach Party Girl - Gwen Cooper Follow the exploits of Rachel Baum, who moves to party town South Beach and spends her days building her career and her nights building a reputation. |
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The Nanny Diaries - Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin Share the horrors of Park Avenue nannying as Nan cares for Grayer, the four-year-son of the overdemanding Mrs X. |
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2007
DECEMBER
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Baby Boom: The arrival of a baby - or the desire for one - changes everything.
CLUB CHALLENGE: Sinead Moriarty's trilogy
Follow Emma Hamilton on her journey to motherhood.
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The Yorkshire Pudding Club - Milly Johnson When three Yorkshire friends picnic on top of an ancient fertility symbol, who would have imagined that within months all three would be pregnant. |
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Little Earthquakes - Jennifer Weiner Three women meet up at a prenatal yoga class - Becky, who's at war with her mother-in-law; Kelly, an overachiever; and Ayinde, who's married to a basketball star. |
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Babyville - Jane Green A tale of two women coping with the chimes of their biological clocks and another who is trying her best to ignore hers. |
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NOVEMBER
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In the Red: What happens when someone gets deep in debt?
CLUB CHALLENGE: Shopaholic series
No one burns up the plastic like Rebecca Bloomwood. Read the five books in Sophie Kinsella's series about the financially challenged financial journalist. Make sure you read the books in order:
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Shoe Addicts Anonymous - Beth Harbison Four women who put their souls - and bank balances - on the line in the name of shoes. |
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Tales of a Drama Queen - Lee Nichols Elle needs to start all over again - and avoid a persistent credit card collector. |
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Alice in La La Land - Sophie Lee Find out why Alice is so desperate to succeed in Hollywood. |
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OCTOBER
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Sister Act: We're embracing the theme of sisters.
CLUB CHALLENGE: Walsh sisters series
Read the four books that Marian Keyes has written about the Walsh family.
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The Spinster Sisters - Stacey Ballis Will their business teaching singles to feel empowered suffer when one of them gets engaged? |
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In Her Shoes - Jennifer Weiner Two sisters who share nothing in common, except their shoe size. |
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Three Wishes - Liane Moriarty A turbulent year in the life of the Kettle triplets. Who stabbed who with a fork? |
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