Chris Manby

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Title: Seven Sunny Days: Description:
Three friends, One Final Fling. When Rachel Buckley announces that she is going to get married, her best friends Yaslyn and Carrie Ann can't wait to give her a proper send-off. No second-rate male stripper in a smoky bar for Rachel though. The girls choose instead to take a 'hen week' in Turkey, in the all inclusive surroundings of luxurious Club Aegee. It should be the perfect trip. But all three girls are bringing along more than their luggage. While Rachel looks forward to her wedding day with excitement, Carrie Ann wonders why the pain of her abusive marriage didn't end when the decree nisi arrived - and Yaslyn considers the possiblity that she might never be ready to marry her boyfriend Euan. Add unlimited free cocktails, rampant reps and a nasty dose of sunstroke and suddenly 'getting away from it all' comes dangerously close to 'going back to nothing'. Can three firm friendships survive just seven sunny days?

Title: Lizzie Jordan's Secret Life: Description:
'You're nearly thirty now, Lizzie Jordan. It's about time you started to do something with your life." Five years after leaving university, Lizzie Jordan considers herself one of life's failures. Unlike her friends with their highflying careers, Lizzie works as a lowly typist, shares a grotty flat and 'makes do' with her accountant boyfriend. But Lizzie leads an alternate life - a hectic whirl of extravagant parties and million-pound business deals. The life she describes in her emails to Brian. Brian. The handsome American student she dated at university. The one she's never been able to forget. The love of Lizzie's life. When Brian announces he's coming to stay, Lizzie is faced with a dilemma. How on earth can she explain that her descriptions of her glamourous lifestyle have been somewhat economical with the truth? The ever resourceful, Lizzie comes up with a cunning and utterly invincible plan. But the best-laid plans ...

Title: Getting Personal: Description:
Ruby Martin and Lou are three old friends who have spent too much time talking about the ones who got away . Facing another summer without love. they decide to approach the dating dilemna in the way they approached finding flatmates. They are going to place personal ads...for each other

Title: Running Away From Richard: Description:
hilarious

Title: Second Prize: Description:
When you've been dumped by the man of your dreams, can you settle for ..... SECOND PRIZE

Title: Running Away From Richard: Description:
The Hilarious new novel from the bestselling author of Lizzie Jordan's Secret Life

Title: Lizzie Jordan's Secret Life: Description:
5 years after leaving uni Lizzie Jordan considers herself one of lifes failures. Unlike her friends with their highflying careers, Lizzie works as a lowly typist, shares a grotty flat and 'makes do' with her accountant boyfriend. But Lizzie leads an alternate life - a hectic whirl of extravagant parties and million pound business deals that she describes in her emails to Brian. But when Brian announces he is coming to stay, Lizzie is faced with a dilemma. How on earth will she explain that her descriptions of her glamorous lifestyle have been somewhat economical with the truth? Ever resourceful, Lizzie comes up with a plan. But the best laid plans........

Title: The Matchbreaker: Description:
When Lindsey Parker's widowed father announces that he is to remarry, Lindsey does what any good daughter would do: wishes him congratulations then sets about trying to kill his fiancee, Karen. Fortunately, the murder attempt fails but Lindsey still succeeds in driving Karen off. It doesn't take long, however, before Lindsey realizes that her father's heart really is broken and the only way to mend it is by getting Karen back. But Karen already has a new man -- mysterious entrepreneur. Lindsay enlists the help of an old schoolmate, now private detective, in an attempt to break this new couple up, but when on her friend's advice, Lindsay turns honey-trapper and sets out to seduce her ex-future-step-mother's new man, she finds herself falling in love...

Title: Lizzie Jordan's Secret Life: With Getting Personal: Description:
2 books in one. Brand new

Title: Second Prize Flatmates Omnibus: Description:
2 books in one.

Title: Deep Heat (coronet Books): Description:
Recovering in hospital from an appendix operation, Ali Harris whiles away her time by entering magazine competitions. A few weeks later, she's delighted to discover that she's won first prize in Complete Woman magazine's Most Romantic Couple of the Year competition. There's just one problem. Ali has been dumped by her fiance, and there's no way she can claim her prize - a romantic holiday for two in Antigua - on her own. Help is at hand in the unlikely form of Jeremy 'Boily' Baxter, the spotty boy next door. But Ali's troubles have only just begun. From the Publisher A wickedly funny romantic comedyAli Harris emerges from hospital minus two useless organs: her appendix and her fiance. Winning a dream holiday for two in Antigua should cheer her up - but the holiday is first prize in Complete Woman magazine's Most Romantic Couple of the Year competition. And there's no way Ali can claim to be one half of Britain's Most Romantic Couple on her own. With a holiday in the offing, Ali's fiance is keen to kiss and make up - but he's not prepared to give up his new girlfriend. So Ali takes matters into her own hands and discovers that revenge is sweet. It's also a whole lot of trouble . . . 'Cross your legs, boys: in the best tradition of Kathy Lette, this is girl power at its most painfully funny' Helen Lederer'She answers the prayers of all those suffering from post-THIS LIFE disorder' GQ'A shagadelic giggle with a good twist in its tale' Ms London From the Author Life imitates fiction.When I started writing Deep Heat, I thought it was hilarious to put the heroine, Ali Harris, through all sorts of trials and tribulations in her search for true love. More recently I've been laughing on the other side of my face, having been dumped, almost as cruelly as my heroine, just seven days before I had to be my best friend's bridesmaid!!!! It did cross my mind to follow in Ali's footsteps and revenge myself with a tube of something that stings, but you'll be relieved to know that I haven't. So far. I suppose the point of this little note is to let anyone out there who's feeling down because they've been let down know that there is happiness beyond the gloom. When you're going through a heap of emotional cowshit, the best revenge is to take notes on some of the worst parts and then publish them!!! About the Author Twenty-six-year-old Chris Manby grew up in Gloucester and published her first story in Just Seventeen magazine at the age of fourteen. An Oxford graduate, she now writes full time, and has had several erotic novels published under the pseudonym Stephanie Ash. DEEP HEAT is her third novel to be published under her own name.

Title: Ready Or Not: Description:
Every bride is entitled to some pre-wedding jitters. And what girl wouldn\'t think twice about marriage when her fiance gets his eyebrows shaved off just in time to look horrendous for the photographs. But what if it\'s not the ceremony that freaks you out but the happy ever after? Heidi Savage is wondering whether she can really forsake all others for macho, beer-swilling Ed. And how can a couple who\'ve never even been baby-sitters be ready to start a family of their own? Will the answer come in the form of her ex-boyfriend Steven? Grown-up, gorgeous and good-with-children. Is Heidi\'s dilemma simply a case of right shoes, right dress, wrong husband? From the Inside Flap Every bride is entitled to some pre-wedding jitters. And what girl wouldn’t think twice about marriage when her fiancé gets his eyebrows shaved off just in time to look horrendous for the photographs. But what if it’s not the ceremony that freaks you out but the happy ever after? Heidi Savage is wondering whether she can really forsake all others for macho, beer-swilling Ed. And how can a couple who’ve never even been baby-sitters be ready to start a family of their own? Will the answer come in the form of her ex-boyfriend Steven? Grown-up, gorgeous and good-with-children. Is Heidi’s dilemma simply a case of right shoes, right dress, wrong husband? --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. About the Author Chris Manby is editor/contributor to the Girls Night In anthologies, which have so far raised more than £900,000 for humanitarian organisation War Child, and topped book charts all over the world. Raised in Gloucester, Chris now lives between London and Los Angeles.

Title: Girl Meets Ape: Description:
when dr jennifer niederhauser becomes head of the chimpanzee project at prowdes animal sanctuary, the uptight young zoologist looks forward to making her mark on the conservation world. but the regime is ramshackle, the chimpanzees uncontrollable and her first meeting with the head keeper Guy Gibson finds him naked and covered in baby oil

Title: Seven Sunny Days: Description:
When Rachel Buckley announces that she is going to get married, her best friends Yaslyn and Carrie Ann can't wait to give her a proper send-off. No second-rate male stripper in a smoky bar for Rachel though. The girls choose instead to take a 'hen week' in Turkey, in the all-inclusive surroundings of luxurious holiday resort. It should be the perfect trip. But all three girls are bringing along more than their luggage. While Rachel looks forward to her wedding day with excitement, Carrie Ann wonders why the pain of her abusive marriage didn't end when the decree nisi arrived and Yaslyn considers the possibility that she might never be ready to marry her patient fiance Magnus. Add unlimited free cocktails, rampant reps and a nasty dose of sunstroke and suddenly 'getting away from it all' comes dangerously close to 'going back to nothing'. Can three firm friendships survive just seven sunny days? About the Author Now in her late twenties, Chris Manby grew up in Gloucester and published her first short story in Just Seventeen magazine at the age of fourteen. She studied psychology at Oxford, and now writes full-time. As well as the novels under her own name, Chris has had several erotic novels published by Little Brown/X Libris under the pseudonym Stephanie Ash. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Excerpted from Seven Sunny Days by Chris Manby. Copyright © 2003. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Why was it, Rachel Buckley wondered, that every time she passed a policeman she suddenly felt guilty? In her twenty-nine years on earth she had never so much as stolen a packet of chewing gum from a corner shop and yet, every time she saw that black uniform, or heard the siren of a police car as it careered up to swoop past her Renault Clio in hot pursuit of a joyrider in a stolen BMW, Rachel froze, went as red as Santa’s underpants and got a sudden urge to confess to every major robbery from the Great Train one to Brinks-Mat.Customs officers were even worse. Now Rachel was actually sweating with anxiety as she waited in the queue to put her hand luggage through the X-ray machine at Gatwick’s south terminal. She had read and reread the notice about passengers only being allowed to take one item of hand luggage on board the plane and felt a tickle of panic as she wondered whether the WH Smith carrier bag containing one magazine and a packet of Hula Hoops would count as a second item alongside her blue rucksack. In front of her, an altogether less considerate traveller had already jammed a huge trolley case through the X-ray machine and was attempting to fit a large cardboard box in after it. The customs officers didn’t bat an eyelid.‘They’ll find a goat when they X-ray that,’ said Rachel’s best friend and travelling companion, Yaslyn Stimpson. Yaslyn chewed gum nonchalantly and noisily as she tossed her own little black handbag on to the conveyor. When the metal detector arch beeped in alarm as Yaslyn sauntered through it, she merely grinned and said, ‘That’ll be the hand grenade,’ before she stepped back out, unloaded her house keys and her gorgeous, real Cartier watch and passed through again to approving silence.Rachel, on the other hand, removed her watch, her necklace and her earrings before she walked through. She was even momentarily convinced that her single mercury filling might cause some kind of reaction, though it never had before. But airport security was tighter than ever these days and she was ready to point out her occluded back molar.‘Hurry up,’ said her other fellow traveller, Carrie Ann Murphy. ‘We’ll meet you over there in duty free.’ And with that, Yaslyn and Carrie Ann were gone in search of two hundred Marlboro Lights and some tax-free tubs of Estée Lauder. They didn’t notice Rachel being pulled aside and asked whether the rucksack was her bag. Had she packed it herself? Had anybody asked her to carry anything for them since she arrived at the airport? And would she mind opening it up so the man behind the counter could take a proper look inside?If Rachel had been blushing as she stepped up to the X-ray machine, she was emitting more radiation than the machine itself as she unzipped her rucksack now. Thank God it was the beginning of her holiday and not the end, she thought. Thank God the spare knickers she’d packed in her hand luggage – since she’d heard that checked-in luggage went astray more frequently than usual on package tours – were clean and plain black cotton and nothing to be embarrassed about. All the same, the customs officer peered into the dark interior of the rucksack and gave a worried frown.‘I can’t see what’s going on in there,’ he said. ‘I’m afraid you’ll have to empty the whole lot out on to this bench.’