666 Park Avenue featured in my ‘Six most anticipated paranormal romance books of 2012‘ and I’m eagerly awaiting its UK release so I was excited to see the new cover which is very different to the US cover (I’ve shown them both below – UK first then US – and I honesty can’t decide which I like best!). The book will be released by Canvas (Constable and Robinson) on 19th July.

I really enjoyed Sue Moorcroft’s last novel, Love and Freedom so I was very excited to see her new cover over on her blog yesterday. Isn’t it lovely? Dream a Little Dream will be published by Choc Lit in November and I can’t wait to read it!

I really enjoyed the first book in the Fairwick Chronicles series, Incubus, which was released last year and have been eagerly awaiting details of the sequel so I was excited to see that the cover for Water Witch has been released. It’s a great cover and I can’t wait to find out what happens next to Callie and the residents of Fairwick. Water Witch will be published on 13th September by Ebury Press.

In the town of Fairwick there is a dark wood, and in the wood there is a stream. And in that stream the Undine live…

Descended from a longline of ‘door-keepers’, Callie McFay has become the guardian of the last gateway between the world of Faerie and mankind.

But unbeknown to Callie there is another door in Fairwick to the world of the Fae – a watery portal that she must now open in order to allow the Undine – juvenile water nymphs – to return to their Faerie world.

If Callie fails in her task, the Undine will die. But they are not the only watery creatures looking for a way to cross the borderlands between the two worlds…

I really enjoyed Arthur Wooten’s last novel Birthday Pie so was excited to see that he is releaseing a new novel in April. Leftovers is described as a ‘romantic dramedy’. It sounds like a great read and has a fab cover!

Vivian Lawson’s fantasy of being the perfect 1950s suburban housewife is shattered when an uncontrollable event changes her life forever.

Destitute and left to fend for herself in a man’s world, she searches her New England town unable to find a job. With nowhere to turn, Vivian takes the advice of her wisecracking best friend, Babs, and reluctantly becomes a Tupperware lady.

Vivian struggles with low self-esteem as well as stage fright but with the support of Bab’s lovesick brother, Stew, and the creator of Tupperware’s Home Party Plan system, Brownie Wise, she may just find the strength to conquer her inner demons and take control of her life.

Leftovers will be be published on 15th April. If you’re curious to read some of Arthur’s previous work and own a Kindle, Arthur Wooten’s Novels are available for the bargain price of just 77p each at the moment!!

There are so many exciting debuts being released in 2012 and The Book of Summers by Emylia Hall is one that I’ve been seeing lots of buzz about. I was already in love with the beautiful cover and then I saw the book trailer below, released earlier this week and am completely intrigued!

Beth Lowe has been sent a parcel.

Inside is a letter informing her that her long-estranged mother has died, and a scrapbook Beth has never seen before. Entitled The Book of Summers, it’s stuffed with photographs and mementos complied by her mother to record the seven glorious childhood summers Beth spent in rural Hungary.

It was a time when she trod the tightrope between separated parents and two very different countries; her bewitching but imperfect Hungarian mother and her gentle, reticent English father; the dazzling house of a Hungarian artist and an empty-feeling cottage in deepest Devon. And it was a time that came to the most brutal of ends the year Beth turned sixteen.

Since then, Beth hasn’t allowed herself to think about those years of her childhood. But the arrival of The Book of Summers brings the past tumbling back into the present; as vivid, painful and vital as ever.

The Book of Summers is released in hardback on 1st March and in paperback in June. Find out more and read an extract at http://www.thebookofsummers.co.uk/

The cover for this book caught my eye when it was mentioned on Twitter recently – isn’t it cute? The Jane Austen Marriage Manual is Kim Izzo’s debut novel and will be published by Hodder & Stoughton on 12th April. It sounds like a fab fun read and as an Austen fan it went straight on my wish list!

It`s a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen knew more about marriage than anyone else. `Never mind that she never got married herself…`

It`s in the midst of the recession when Kate, a freelance journalist and self-professed Jane Austen addict, finds herself single, unemployed and soon-to-be homeless `not to mention about to turn 40`.

In desperation she accepts a writing assignment to prove a theory that in the toughest economic times a wealthy man is the only must-have accessory. So, with just Jane Austen`s advice for company, she sets off to see if Mr Rich can ever become Mr Right.

Her mission takes her to Palm Beach, St Moritz and London. Where, in keeping company with the elite, she meets billionaires, oil tycoons, and generally men who make Mr Darcy look like an amateur. But will rubbing shoulders with men of good fortune ever actually lead her to love?

Last month I wrote a list of the ten ‘chick lit’ books that  I can’t wait to read this year. Lindsey Kelk’s summer release I Heart London was on the list so you can imagine my excitement when I saw that the cover has been released. I’ve loved all of the covers in this series and this one is gorgeous too – I can’t wait to find out what happens to Angela when she’s back on home turf!

Home is where the heart is. Right?

Angela Clark has fallen in love with America – and it’s starting to love her back.

Throw one expired visa into the mix, and things quickly take a turn for the worse.

Now, there’s another wedding in the offing – and everyone remembers how well the last one went . . .

I met the lovely Nicola May yesterday at her book signing at Waterstones in Croydon. Nicola celebrated the official launch of her new book Star Fish last week. I love the cover for this one and am very much looking forward to reading my copy soon. Kindle owners – you can grab Star Fish for the bargain price of £1.53 at the moment and if you haven’t read Nicola’s previous novel, Working It Out, I’d highly recommend that too.

Tired of looking for love, Amy Anderson decides that an astrological dating agency is the only way to meet the man of her dreams.

Star Fish follows Piscean Amy’s hysterical search for her ‘sole mate’ as she dates her way through the twelve signs of the zodiac. So who will finally woo Amy?

Will it be Ted the Arian photographer with a passion for ice skating, or maybe Laurence, the Libran IT whiz kid who likes to get behind the wheel of a fast car? Or how about Capricornian Christopher, the owner of Starr & Son, the dating agency?  You’ll be kept guessing until the very last page!

Nicola will be signing copies of both books at the following events in the next few weeks:

11th February – Waterstones Camberley
18th February – Waterstones Windsor
25th February – Waterstones Woking

I’m a big fan of Katie Fforde so was very excited to read her first digital short story, The Undercover Cook, released today. I really enjoyed this short story which follows undercover journalist Emily as she takes on an assignment at a top restaurant with a fiery head chef! The Undercover Cook is a brilliant snapshot of Katie’s storytelling and if you haven’t read any of her books before will give you a great flavour of her writing.  This is a great quick read and has all of the classic Katie Fforde ingredients; warmth, humour, romance, a lovable heroine and a tasty hero! Find out more and download your copy at: http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/editions/the-undercover-cook/9781448135639

Meet Emily, a young woman who dreams of being a prize-winning investigative journalist. Her first assignment is to a top restaurant where tempestuous chef Theo Milton reigns supreme. Very soon romance starts to sparkle amongs the pots and pans. And Emily finds there’s more than cooking on her mind.

Katie’s next full novel, Recipe for Love is released on 1st March and you can find out more about Katie and her books on her fab new website at: http://www.katiefforde.com/

The paperback of Lisa Jewell’s The Making of Us is out in May with a lovely new cover. It’s a complete change from Lisa’s previous covers and gives a very different impression to, not only to her other books, but also the original cover release.  I loved the original striking turquoise cover, which is the edition I have, but I also think the new cover is beautiful. What do you think?

Either way, I’ve had this one on my ‘to read’ pile for far too long so plan to read it very soon!

They say friends are the new family. But what happens when you can no longer ignore the invisible ties that bind us all, in the end, to our biological family?

Lydia, secure in her controlled, successful and organised London life, thinks that she’s better off alone. But a mysterious letter is about to change everything…

Dean thinks his life is going nowhere, until a terrible tragedy forces him to reassess everything and turn his life around.

And there’s Robin – young, ambitious and independent, but starting to question who she really is and what she wants from life.

Lydia, Robyn and Dean don’t know each other – yet.

But they are bound together by a secret. A secret that will bring them together, turn their lives upside down and show them what friendship, love and familyreally mean …