BOOK NEWS
Julie Cohen's imaginatively titled Nina Jones and the Temple of Gloom is out early next year. The summary says: "All work and no play makes Nina a dull girl... But when you're PA to a celebrity chef who's tastier than one of his delicious dishes you can't help loving your job. What's wrong with fancying the pants off your boss? Erm, everything if he's married to someone else. So when Nina meets sexy Spaniard Juan, she's thrilled to escape to a new life abroad ... until he does a runner with her hard-earned cash and she's forced to move to The Temple of Gloom - a gothic flat with some unusual inhabitants. Nina's had enough of bloodsuckers but is her mysterious neighbour Viktor really a vampire? Sometimes it's hard to know who to trust..." Cohen has revealed the idea for the book came to her while reading Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. She also has another title due out at the end of 2010, tentatively called The Bad Twin, about a woman who takes over her identical twin's life when her sister disappears.