JOANNA TROLLOPE LOVES CHICK-LIT...
In the Guardian today, British grand dame of popular fiction, Joanna Trollope -- she really isn't as scary as her picture would suggest -- tells the world that she had so much fun judging the Melissa Nathan Award last year, that she and fellow judges Jo Brand, Sophie Kinsella, Jessica Hines, Gaynor Allen (chief fiction buyer for Tesco) and Alan Davies want to do it again in an article headed --
In the Guardian today, British grand dame of popular fiction, Joanna Trollope -- she really isn't as scary as her picture would suggest -- tells the world that she had so much fun judging the Melissa Nathan Award last year, that she and fellow judges Jo Brand, Sophie Kinsella, Jessica Hines, Gaynor Allen (chief fiction buyer for Tesco) and Alan Davies want to do it again in an article headed -- WHY I LOVE CHICK-LIT
(Bet you never thought you'd seen that in a Guardian headline!)
"People sneer at these books, but wittily told romantic fiction is as hard to write as it is fun to read... "
Read on here
Here's the 2008 shortlist.
HEAVEN SENT by Christina Jones (Little, Brown)
MRS ZHIVAGO OF QUEEN’S PARK by Olivia Lichtenstein (Orion)
31 DREAM STREET by Lisa Jewell (Penguin)
THE SECRET LIFE OF A SLUMMY MUMMY by Fiona Neill (Arrow)
A GIRL’S GUIDE TO KISSING FROGS by Victoria Clayton (HarperCollins)
MERDE HAPPENS by Stephen Clarke (Transworld)
1 comment:
Thanks for sharing this piece, Liz.
And please, please, please let the judges have named Heaven Sent by Christina Jones the winner of the award come tomorrow night! I have everything crossed. It was - as are all Christina's books - a fabulous read and has one of the best first lines every.
Keep your fingers crossed, everyone.
Love,
Mags xx
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