OH MY WORD!!!

…..that was quick ! (or words to that effect!!) Loads of people wrote in with an answer. 12 got it right. It is Beryl Cook of course! Polly Dunbar won by seconds so she gets the book ! Off to Schilly Isles with mad tree elf and Michelle Cartlidge for Champagne...
It’s Babette’s Birthday Tomorrow!

It’s Babette’s Birthday Tomorrow!

Name a famous painter of fat naughty ladies who was born on the same day and win a free Babette Cole book ! Email your entries to babette@babette-cole.com, Kitty@babette-cole.com or reply@babette-cole.com  by midnight 10th Sept ! Happy Birthday Babette! Love from...
Sarah McIntyre’s and Phill Reeve’s launch Party

Sarah McIntyre’s and Phill Reeve’s launch Party

Yesterday, I went to the US Embassy in London to get a tax form stamped so I don’t get double taxed for a book I’m doing for Harper Collins N.Y. What a palava! They would not let me in with my folio and Lee Scratch Perry shopping trolly so they sent me...
A Blagger’s Guide To: Buying books

A Blagger’s Guide To: Buying books

Bags of ways to back your local bookshop According to research commissioned by the Booksellers Association, 88 per cent of British book buyers are concerned that there are fewer bookshops on the high streets than five years ago, 91.7 per cent of book buyers are...
Wombles set for Channel 5 return

Wombles set for Channel 5 return

The Wombles of Wimbledon Common are to return to the small screen, in a new Channel 5 series made using computer-generated animation. Based on the adventures of the loveable London litter-pickers, the 52, 11-minute shorts will air on the channel’s pre-school...
Amazon books executive accused in suit of sexual assault

Amazon books executive accused in suit of sexual assault

Amazon Publishing head Laurence Kirshbaum sexually assaulted prospective employee Teresa McCoy in public — not once, but twice — she charges. Comments (9) By Dareh Gregorian / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS A Manhattan publishing big is 50 shades of depraved, a shocking lawsuit...