Chick lit must be taken on its own terms and this is a snappy contribution to the genre, delivering a nice version of the traditional message. It's taken them forever but in chick lit, finally, sisters are doing it for themselves.

Cassie Cavanagh strays into Sophie Kinsella's shopoholic territory and meeting with a chicklit legend is more dangerous than the Harvey Nicks shoe shop on the first day of the sales. Thankfully, she pulls it off with wit and charm

Far and away my favourite writer

One of our best historical novelists

Harwood is enviable skilled, handling pacing, delivery and plot with assurance and sly humour... The Ghost Writer has powerful moments and...a delicacy and tenderness that make it wonderfully readable

'One of the country's most widely read novelists

Jean Plaidy has already established herself among the foremost of current historical novelists

Jean Plaidy conveys the texture of various patches of the past with such rich complexity

'A grand recounting of the second Punic War...Durham's epic is truly a big, magnificent, sprawling story complete with a sizable cast of compelling characters, intricately drawn battle scenes and fluid, graceful prose'