Lorraine Campbell

Ellie Campbell

Pam Burks

In a recent survey 65% of mothers admitted feeling undervalued, over-criticised and constantly tired. Cathy is no exception. Her dull, uneventful days as a stay at home, mother of two, are radically transformed however with the arrival of a heavily lipsticked postcard addressed to husband, Declan. Who is the mysterious La La? Could Declan really be having an affair? And is Cathy actually being stalked? Whatever - it will definitely prove riveting gossip for the Tuesday Twice Monthlies, Cathy's 'Mothers Restaurant Research' group where scandal flows as recklessly as the wine. But what starts as a light-hearted investigation with best friend Raz, soon turns into something much more sinister. With a possible murderer on the scene, a sexy admirer igniting long-forgotten sparks, and all her friends hiding secrets, it's not only Cathy's marriage that's in jeopardy. Add in the scheming antics of Declan's new assistant, the stress of organising the school Save The Toilet's dance and the stage is set for a dangerous showdown and some very unsettling, possibly deadly, revelations.' Editorial Reviews Praise for previous Ellie Campbell novels: When Good Friends Go Bad 'Quirky and intriguing and kept me interested throughout... all the key ingredients for a gripping read: love and lust are angling for room with an unsolved mystery, lots of juicy secrets (old and new) and a nice bit of suspense and surprise towards the end.' The Bookbag 'An engaging story about the bonds of friendship stretching over 12 years, by the sister duo who gave us How to Survive Your Sisters.' BOOKSELLER 'When Good Friends Go Bad really was a fabulous novel and I wholly recommend you read it.' Chicklit Reviews and News Nominated as a "Top Ten Beach Read" Red Magazine How to Survive your Sisters 'Makes sibling rivalry funny.' Cosmopolitan 'A rollicking read, ' Carol Smith, author of 'Twilight Hour' and 'In the Dead of the Night'. 'A cracking book with the entangled plot developing at great speed, one of the best in this area.' BOOKSELLER 'Ellie Campbell's infectious sense of fun is immensely cheering. Her stories are a gorgeous blend of memorable characters, plot-twisting treats and heart-warming nostalgia. I hope the Ellie Campbell phenomenon is here to stay.' Fiona Walker, author of Four Play and The Love Letter.

Looking for la La

A wonderfully warm and witty debut novel about family secrets and sibling rivalry. The four MacLeod sisters are no strangers to sisterly rivalry and with one of them about to be married, there are bound to be fireworks. Perfectionist Natalie wants the 'wedding of the year'. Harassed mother, Milly, just wishes her bridesmaid's dress wasn't the size of a tent. Career-obsessed Avril secretly moons over a married man and world traveler, Hazel, the youngest, yearns to be taken seriously. Forced together for the first time in years, and with an unexpected guest stirring up old resentments, squabbles are inevitable. But when tragedy strikes things really fly apart - as some shocking skeletons emerge rattling from the crowded MacLeod closet… 'Makes sibling rivalry funny.' Cosmopolitan 'A rollicking read.' Carol Smith, author of Twilight Hour 'A cracking book with the entangled plot developing at great speed, one of the best in this area.' BOOKSELLER 'Ellie Campbell's infectious sense of fun is immensely cheering. Her stories are a gorgeous blend of memorable characters, plot-twisting treats and heart-warming nostalgia. I hope the Ellie Campbell phenomenon is here to stay.' Fiona Walker Praise for Ellie Campbell:When Good Friends Go Bad'Quirky and intriguing and kept me interested throughout… all the key ingredients for a gripping read: love and lust are angling for room with an unsolved mystery, lots of juicy secrets (old and new) and a nice bit of suspense and surprise towards the end.' The Bookbag 'An engaging story about the bonds of friendship stretching over 12 years, by the sister duo who gave us How to Survive your sisters.' BOOKSELLER 'When Good Friends Go Bad really was a fabulous novel and I wholly recommend you read it.' Chicklit Reviews and News Nominated as a “Top Ten Beach Read” Red Magazine

How to Survive Your Sisters

Cathy is riding high in her brand-new job at a (surprisingly bitchy) top London advertising agency working with best friend Rosa. But when Rosa's pregnancy goes amiss and enemies sabotage her new career, she finds herself leading a chaotic double life of lies and deception, hiding a shameful secret from all, especially husband Declan who appears in the throes of a nervous breakdown. Meanwhile she's agreed to unmask the notorious Crouch End Creeper, a burglar terrorizing their neighbourhood. Little does she know that her meddling, assisted by fellow mothers (the Wednesday Once Weeklies) and the Neighbourhood Watch, will lead their dangerous opponent to murder. And that it's not only the tall elegant transvestite who is placing herself at risk...

A Crouch End Confidential Mystery

To Catch a Creeper

All through school, tomboy Jen, snobby Georgina, hippy Meg and gentle Rowan, were inseparable. Until, that is, the unfortunate consequences of a childish prank tore them apart.As adults an attempted reunion went disastrously wrong. Rowan failed to appear. Meg behaved outrageously and - sharpest cut of all – Jen discovered just how deeply Georgina had betrayed her.So now, a mother herself, in the midst of divorce, the last thing Jen needs is a call from Meg. Or is it? Will Meg's strange mission to track down the missing Rowan re-open old wounds or is it a chance to heal the rift – or to recover Jen's never-forgotten, first true love? As their quest unearths secrets and feelings best left buried, Jen, Meg and Georgina will be tested on love, loyalty, and friendship, discover the truth about Rowan – and wake a danger that threatens them all.Praise for Ellie Campbell:'Quirky and intriguing and kept me interested throughout… all the key ingredients for a gripping read: love and lust are angling for room with an unsolved mystery, lots of juicy secrets (old and new) and a nice bit of suspense and surprise towards the end.' The Bookbag. 'An engaging story about the bonds of friendship stretching over years, by the sister duo who gave us How to Survive Your Sisters.' BOOKSELLER. 'When Good Friends Go Bad really was a fabulous novel and I wholly recommend you read it.' Chicklit Reviews and News. Nominated as a “Top Ten Beach Read” Red Magazine

When Good Friends Go Bad

Andrew Mcdonald

Carolyn Court

David Cohen

Claire Thomas

Paul Dawson

Andrew Morgan

Leanne Hall

Lee Kofman

Mischa Merz

Melanie Joosten

Euan Mitchell

Adele Smith

John Holton

Jane Ormond

Nathan Curnow

Rachel Leary

Scott McDermott

Rose Mulready

Ann Bloch

Brook Dunnell

Caroline Petite

Daniel Wynn

Helen Addision-Smith

Jamie Buchanan

Julia Inglis

Leigh Coyle

Lucy Lawson

Melissa Bruce

Mira Cuturilo

Phil Guy

Ryan Paine

Sean M. Whelan

Paula Hunt

Cardigan Press are back with a new collection of fiction sourced from across Australia. Stories fall into sections that pass through the night with darkening themes: "Bedtime Stories", "Brink of Midnight", "Through the Looking Glass" and "Hallucinatory Bird Songs". New fiction meets pop culture in this collection that's all about getting postcards of your disappeared boyfriend, meeting Hemingway on the train, pretty exploding mosquitos and winning the race to the mixing bowl.

Fiction That Burns at Both Ends

Allnighter

All through school, tomboy Jen, snobby Georgina, hippy Meg and gentle Rowan, were inseparable. Until, that is, the unfortunate consequences of a childish prank tore them apart. As adults an attempted reunion went disastrously wrong. Rowan failed to appear. Meg behaved outrageously and --- sharpest cut of all - Jen discovered just how deeply Georgina had betrayed her. So now, a mother herself, in the midst of divorce, the last thing Jen needs is a call from Meg. Or is it? Will Meg's strange mission to track down the missing Rowan re-open old wounds or is it a chance to heal the rift - or to recover Jen's never-forgotten, first true love? As their quest unearths secrets and feelings best left buried, Jen, Meg and Georgina will be tested on love, loyalty, and friendship, discover the truth about Rowan - and wake a danger that threatens them all. Editorial Reviews 'Quirky and intriguing and kept me interested throughout... all the key ingredients for a gripping read: love and lust are angling for room with an unsolved mystery, lots of juicy secrets (old and new) and a nice bit of suspense and surprise towards the end.' The Bookbag. 'An engaging story about the bonds of friendship stretching over years, by the sister duo who gave us How to Survive Your Sisters.' BOOKSELLER. 'When Good Friends Go Bad really was a fabulous novel and I wholly recommend you read it.' Chicklit Reviews and News. Nominated as a "Top Ten Beach Read" Red Magazine

All through school tomboy Jen, snobby Georgina, hippy Meg and gentle Rowan were inseparable. But when a childish prank turned bad their friendship was torn apart. Twelve years later Rowan organised a reunion dinner and all did not go well. Rowan never appeared; Georgina's shocking secret was revealed; Meg behaved outrageously; and Jen finally decided it was time to move on. And that's just what she did for the following ten years ... Until now, when in the midst of her divorce Jen receives a desperate call from Meg. On a personal mission to track down Rowan, Meg manages to convince Georgina and Jen to put aside their differences and help her. But none of them even begin to imagine the extent to which their loyalties will be tested as their past finally catches up with them. Praise for Ellie Campbell's How To Survive Your Sisters 'I loved the four central characters for their infuriating differences and their glorious symbiosis ... makes for great finger-licking, page-turning tension' Fiona Walker, author of Four Play 'A rollicking read' Carol Smith, author of Twilight Hour 'Makes sibling rivalry funny.' Cosmopolitan

What can rock your world faster than winning or losing a king's ransom overnight? Just as a huge financial scandal throws New Yorker, Olivia Wheeler, from wealth and success to bankruptcy and shame, struggling impoverished single-mother Rosie Dixon wins an unexpected million pounds. Good luck? Bad luck? Who can tell? Both women have more in common than they realize. While Olivia struggles to survive her humiliations, fleeing broke and homeless to London, shy unassuming Rosie discovers sudden riches arrive with their own mega-load of problems. Can workaholic career-obsessed Olivia find a passion for something earthier and warmer than power and prestige? And can Rosie sift through envy and greed to discover true friends, true family and even true love? Two strangers who've never met. Yet neither realizes how each is affecting the other's destiny or the places their paths touch and fates entwine. How will they surmount the pitfalls and perils of their outrageous change of fortune? That is the million dollar question.

Million Dollar Question

Crouch End Confidential, the agency started by housewife and mother, Cathy O?Farrell, with ex-cleaning lady, Pimple is failing badly. Hardly surprising when Cathy?s too soft-hearted to charge their only clients, little old ladies seeking lost pets and a school kid searching for his stolen bike.A new case involving a teenager in possession of an unexplained Luger pistol promises to change all that. Quickly Cathy?s deep in waters over her head, forced with hilarious results to pose as a mathematics tutor, a subject of which she?s truly clueless. There?s also the tricky situation of best friend and new mother Rosa hiring her to investigate her fiancé, Alec, plus the mysterious sabotage of Cathy?s friends? cycle shop and a gang of yobbos dealing drugs at her children's primary school.Worst of all, an ill-fated trip to rural Norfolk has Cathy's husband, Declan, intent on buying a post office and transplanting the family to safer climes, threatening to tear Cathy permanently from her beloved North London home.Pretty soon Cathy?s risking her friendships, her marriage and even her life untangling all these messes. But that?s what you get for meddling in murder?

Meddling with Murder

Ellie Campbell

About

Books

Join the club