November Releases

Margaret James THE SILVER LOCKET
Choc Lit
1st November
£7.99 (paperback)

As the First World War gets under way, Rose Courtenay runs away from home to become an army nurse, falls in love with a married man, and has to make many difficult choices.

Sue Moorcroft WANT TO KNOW A SECRET?
Choc Lit
1 November 2010
£7.99
Money and love? Which matters most?

Karen Abbott A LOVE WORTH WAITING FOR

F. A. Thorpe Linford Romance Series - Large Print

November 2010

Cost - £8.99

Jasmine Jones gets the opportunity to open a Teashop in the lovely village

of Manorbier in Pembrokeshire -- but when disturbing things begin to happen,

Jasmine wonders who wants her business to fail...surely not local artist

Rhys Morgan ?

Trisha Ashley TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS
Avon HarperCollins
October 28th
Cost 6.99
For widow Holly Brown, looking after a remote house on the Lancashire moors seems the perfect way to escape the festivities - but when the owner unexpectedly returns just before a blizzard cuts the village off, the Twelve Days of Christmas take a very unexpected turn.

Annie Burrows A COUNTESS BY CHRISTMAS (in anthology "Regency Mistletoe and Marriages"
which also contains story by Joanna Maitland, "The Earl's Mistletoe Bride")
Mills and Boon
November 2010
£6.99
Two sparkling regency romances, set during the Christmas season

Lynne Connolly UNBROKEN
Total E-Bound
November 8th 2010
Cost TBA
Zoltan's looking for imperfection, and he finds it in Vashti.

























Dilly Court A MOTHER’S SECRET
Arrow
4 November 2011
£19.99
Raised in a notorious East End baby farm, Cassy thinks that the Indian woman
who saves her from the gutter is her mother, but she has yet to learn the
secret of her birth.

Liz Fielding MISTLETOE AND THE LOST STILETTO
Harlequin "Romance"
$4.50 US
With the entire world hunting for Lucy, hiding out in Santa's Grotto seemed like a good idea. Ho, ho, ho...

Liz Fielding A STRANGER'S KISS
Linford Romance Library
November, £8.99
Tara takes refuge with a stranger to avoid a stalker.  Out of the frying pan into the roasting pan...

June Francis SUNSHINE AND SHOWERS
Allison & Busby Ltd.
8th November,
£7.99
Patsy Doyle is settled into her role as live-in-maid to the Tanners'
household whilst Joy Kirk is busy planning her wedding but have both let themselves in for more than they bargained?

Kate Harrison THE SECRET SHOPPER UNWRAPPED
Orion
November 11
£6.99
Sandie, Emily and Grazia are on the warpath, exposing shocking Christmas shopping experiences, while they try to juggle love lives, family sagas and sabotage as December 25 approaches...

Anna Jacobs PERSONS OF RANK
Magna Large Print
15 November, 2010
£20.99
Regency romance: The dowager believes people of rank should not fall in love but her granddaughter and niece can’t help themselves, which brings a tangle of complications.

Jan Jones THE PENNY PLAIN MYSTERIES (Part 1 of 4: The Jigsaw Puzzle)
Four-part serial
People's Friend (weekly magazine)
Starts 24th November 2010 (Issue dated 27.10.10)
85p or thereabouts
A jigsaw from the past propels Penny to a puzzling future.

Freda Lightfoot ANGELS AT WAR
Allison & Busby Ltd.
November 2010
£19.99
Racked with guilt over the tragic death of her sister Maggie, Livia promises never to let anyone down again and to do something worthwhile with her life.

Freda Lightfoot HOUSE OF ANGELS
Magna large print
October 2010
£20.99
The Angel sisters struggle to escape their bullying father and find an
unexpected half-sister.

Freda Lightfoot HOSTAGE QUEEN
ebook
November 2010
£6.99 +VAT
In a court rife with murder, political intrigue, debauchery, jealousy and
the hunger for power, can Marguerite de Valois hope to keep her head.
























Chrissie Loveday FROM THIS DAY ON
Ulverscroft Linford Romance Large Print
November 2010
£8.99
Set in a Cornish village, misogenist male doctor meets his new female locum
and sparks fly ... but they reckon without his aunt who's a bit of witch.

Sue Moorcroft STARTING OVER
Isis (Large Print hardback)
1 November 2010
£20.95
New home, new friends, new love. Can starting over be that simple?

Sue Moorcroft ONE SUMMER IN MALTA
Isis
01 November 2010
£11.99
Tina has only one opportunity to spend a summer in Malta. Shame the past is waiting for her there.

























Gillian Villiers TOMORROW’S PROMISE
Thorpe Large Print
1 November 2010
Cost - £8.99
Lara is determined never to risk falling in love, but when she takes up a
new post and agrees to share a house with laid-back fellow teacher Mick, she
finds it isn’t quite so simple.


SHORT STORIES

Kate Jackson THE CIRCLE OF LIFE
Short Story
Peoples Friend Christmas Special
DC Thomson
28th October
£2.99
Christmas will never be same again without Grace.

March Publications

Julie Cohen – NINA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF GLOOM
Little Black Dress
£5.99
It's the funny, fast-paced story of a shoe-loving chick-lit heroine who loses everything and is forced to live in a run-down Gothic building with some very odd inhabitants. More than that, it's the heartwarming, emotional story of a young woman learning who she really is and what's important in life.

Mary Nichols – THE CAPTAIN’S MYSTERIOUS LADY
Mills & Boon
£3.79
Captain James Drymore has one purpose in life: to hunt down the men who killed his wife, but when he sees a beautiful young lady in distress, he allows himself to become distracted for the first time…

Mary Nichols – THE VISCOUNT’S UNCONVENTIONAL BRIDE
Mills & Boon
£13.99
Having discovered she was adopted, Louise flees to her birthplace to find her family, but Viscount Leinster, a member of the Piccadilly Gentleman's Club is sent to ensure her return…

Kate Johnson w/a Cat Marsters – MAD, BAD & DANGEROUS
Ellora's Cave (ebook)
24th Feb
$7.99 (approx £6)
Baelvar is gorgeous, charming, insane, childish and mildly psychotic. He’s also mated to Kett, who’s brilliant, bitchy, violent and more than a little psychotic herself. It’s a match made in heaven, except for one tiny detail…Kett doesn’t want to be mated to anyone.
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Kate Johnson w/a Cat Marsters – HARDEST OF HEARTS
Changeling Press (ebook)
19th Mar
Price TBA (approx $4)
Emma and Aidan can't keep their hands off each other. There's just one little problem: she's sworn to kill all vampires and he likes the taste of blood a little too much.
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Janet Woods – STRAW IN THE WIND
Severn House
25 Mar 2010
Price: £19.99
The stand-alone sequel to Salting the Wound
1835, England. Serafina Finn, is abandoned to an orphanage. Eighteen years later, her father dispatches detective, Adam Chapman to find her. Adam falls in love with, Serafina but even if he can prove her identity, will her real family accept her?

Maggi Sherwin - PURE SILK
Total-e-Bound
March 29, 2010
£2.49
Disappointed in love, impuslive Ellie Tobin embarks on a friends-with-benefits relationship with animal welfare investigator Greg Hudson. He is not really her type, but Mr Wrong is out prove that he is her Mr Right.

Trisha Ashley – CHOCOLATE WISHES

Avon, HarperCollins

When Chloe's grandfather opened a museum of witchcraft in the Lancashire village of Sticklepond, there was bound to be some conflict with the local vicar, though perhaps not quite the sort that artisan chocolate maker-Chloe envisaged!

Fiona Harper- HOUSEKEEPER’s HAPPY-EVER-AFTER
(released as a 2-in-1 with Jessica Hart's 'Oh-So-Sensible Secretary')
Mills & Boon
£4.99
Modern-day Cinderella story with a barefoot heroine and a dashing hero.

Jo Beverley - TEMPTING FORTUNE
Everlyn Publishing.
March 22nd 2010
6.99
Portia St. Claire's struggles to save her family from her brother's folly ensnare her in the wickedness of Georgian London.

Rosie Harris - WHISPERS OF LOVE

Arrow Books

4th March 2010

£19.99

Would she ever be free from her past?

Liz Fielding - CHRISTMAS ANGEL FOR THE BILLIONAIRE

Mills and Boon

Large Print Library Edition

A change of identities, a mishap in a dark lane and a very irritable prince charming - not quite the adventure Lady Rose had been looking for.

Liz Fielding - A POINT OF PRIDE

Linford Romance

LP Library Edition

When Gil Blake returns to Melchester there is good news and bad news for Casey O'Connor. The bad news is that her father is broke. The bad news is that Gil will bail him out - for a price.

Karen Abbot - A MOST REBELLIOUS DÉBUTANTE

Robert Hale

£18.99

Rebellious Lucy Templeton, determined to marry only for love, is sent to stay with her elder sister in the country after refusing a number of advantageous offers of marriage. There she meets the notorious Lord Rockhaven--but why is he in hiding? should Lucy run whilst she can? Or stay to help him?

Karen Abbot - THE FARRINGTON FORTUNE

F.A. Thorpe in the Linford Romance series - Large Print

Whilst heading to London to visit her wealthy Godmother, Patricia is in involved in a carriage accident that throws her into the path of Mr. Darvill, a very eligible 'parti'. After hearing a derogatory comment about her opportune invasion of his privacy, Patricia wilfully declares herself to be a 'wealthy 'heiress'--little realising the consequences of her piqued response.

Short Stories

The Homecoming by Janet Gover
Your Cat Magazine - March Issue.
Could a charming cat and a strapping young stockman convince Bec to return home from the city?


Janet Gover - The Heavenly Child
My Weekly Magazine - March It was one small step for a man - a giant leap for a woman.www.janetgover.com

RNA Website - Conference Session Reports and a Link to a Reporter's Day at the Conference

The RNA website now has reports of all the Penrith conference sessions here.

Roger Lytollis, a brave reporter, from THE CUMBERLAND NEWS, shares his experience of a day at the conference here.

The Book and Shoe contest, here, is still open as those who have guessed so far have been incorrect or are ineligible as they were there! (hint read the comments for clues) The prizes are Trisha Ashley's WEDDING TIERS and Kate Lace's TROPHY GIRL.

Finally, 78 people voted in our poll on how many books to bring on a two week poolside/beach holiday. The resounding leader was five books (34 votes) followed by ten books (24 votes) and trailing behind together were two books (10 votes) and 15 books (9 votes) and finally one book (1 vote). This leads to tomorrow's post from Lynne Connolly and why it isn't easy to take a photo of her TBR Pile.

The Tale of Book and Shoe - Penrith 09

The frocks for the gala evening on Saturday were beautiful, but not half so much fun to photograph - so here are a selection of shoes (the ones that were in focus that is - difficult to take photographs, drink and chat simultaneously- at least for this bumbling soul). So your challenge should you chose to accept it is - Can you match the shoe to the author? Can you match the the type of romantic fiction that the shoe wearer writes? We have two books to give away ( Trisha Ashley's WEDDING TIERS and Kate Lace's THE TROPHY GIRL) - finally can you locate Katie Fforde's feet? If you were lucky enough to be in attendance, needless to say you are not allowed to compete! The two people with the most correct matches will be the winners! (I had tried to label each photo with a letter but it didn't work - some had 2 or 3 and many had none - so you will have to be quite specific in your description of the shoes - sorry)

Tomorrow's post will be the tale of a first time attendee...