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TOP-SELLING BRITISH NOVELIST CHRISTINA JONES
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
SOME OF HER TITLES ARE:
'The Way to a Woman's Heart', 'Going The Distance', 'Moonshine', 'Honey Suckle House', 'Nothing To Lose', 'Walking On Air', 'Lavender Lane', 'Dancing in the Moonlight', 'Summer of Love', 'Jumping To Conclusions', 'Hubble Bubble', 'Heaven Sent', 'Love Potions'...
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Christina Jones is one of the most popular British writers of romantic-comedy novels, or 'bucolic frolics' as she likes to call them.
Born in Oxford, she grew up in a Berkshire village, a countryside setting that's reflected in many of her novels, as well as the community ties she enjoyed in her happy childhood.
Her parents instilled her with the love for reading and storytelling. She did not wait long before engaging in writing, an activity she was already serious about at the tender age of five. In fact, Christina published her first short story at fourteen years old. However, it wouldn't be until much later in her life that she realised that writing could become her profession, when, after winning another award, she was approached by a literary agent.
Her latest title is 'The Way to a Woman's Heart', which has been received with special enthusiasm by critics and fans alike. The lovely Christina tells us about love and life, as well as her deliciously funny romantic novels, in this not-to-be-missed exclusive interview.
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TRUE TIMELESS LOVE: 'The Time Traveler's Wife'
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SHORT SYNOPSIS
Using alternating first-person perspectives, the novel tells the stories of Henry DeTamble (born 1963), a librarian at the Newberry Library in Chicago, and his wife, Clare Abshire (born 1971), an artist who makes paper sculptures. Henry has a rare genetic disorder, which comes to be known as Chrono-Displacement, that causes him to involuntarily travel through time. When 20-year-old Clare meets 28-year-old Henry at the Newberry Library in 1991 at the opening of the novel, he has never seen her before, although she has known him most of her life.
AUTHOR: Audrey Niffenegger |
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FORBIDDEN, CONTROVERSIAL LOVE: 'Forbidden'
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SHORT SYNOPSIS
Sixteen-year-old Maya and seventeen-year-old Lochan have never had the chance to be 'normal' teenagers. Having pulled together for years to take care of their younger siblings while their wayward, drunken mother leaves them to fend alone, they have become much more than brother and sister. And now, they have fallen in love. But this is a love that can never be allowed, a love that will have devastating consequences... How can something so wrong feel so right?
AUTHOR: Tabitha Suzuma
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TEEN LOVE: 'Beastly'
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SHORT SYNOPSIS
Kyle Kingsbury has it all...or so he thinks. That is until one day when a strange and ugly girl named Kendra appears in one of his classes and tries his 'royal' status, of course Kyle instantly takes this opportunity to bully her. It is then that Kendra reveals herself to be a beautiful witch and punishes him for his cruelty by condemning him to live as a beast. However, because of his one act of kindness, she gives him two years to find somebody who can love him for who he is, not what he looks like...and when he does, the girl must prove her love with a kiss.
AUTHOR: Alex Flinn
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UNIVERSAL LOVE - CLASSIC READING: 'City of Joy'
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SHORT SYNOPSIS
Living in the seeming hell of one of the poorest and most crowded quarters of Calcutta are the saints of today: saints such as Mother Teresa, saints such as Stephen Kovalski, an unkown Polish Catholic priest who made his home there to care for the poorest of the poor.
And Max Loeb, an American physician dedicated to fighting disease in this dirty hellhole.
City of Joy, the story of these saints, is a testament to the human spirit unbowed by the most wretched of circumstances.
AUTHOR: Dominique Lapierre
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In chronological, also visits/length-of-visit, orders, here are the names and direct links to the Stars among the Stars from previous recent It's Been Written's features.
If you're one of the few that missed the words and/or the info at the time of their inclusion, click on the links to access them. |
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