- Ant + Dec literally the last grown men in Britain that can walk into a primary school and still be endearing :( #snt
- RT @JenBrister: Good luck to the comics gigging in Cardiff tonight.
- Still, Gavin Henson got to be in #thebachelor so I'm sure that was just as good :(
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Afternoon Tea with Jenny Colgan
Posted on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012 | News and Updates
Jenny Colgan, who’s been described by The Observer as ‘sharp and witty’ and by New Statesman as ‘sharp and hilarious’ (there’s a theme there) lists amongst her favourite things ‘Stewart Lee, Jon Ronson and Spanx’.
With Meet Me At The CUpcake Cafe set in a Stoke Newington cake shop, Jenny’s joining the Stoke Newington Literary Festival on Sunday the 3rd of June to talk about writing fiction for women, the ‘chick lit’ label and, surprisingly, her exciting new Doctor Who gig!
Includes cupcake.
More information and ticketing via the Stoke Newington Literary Festival website.
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Welcome to Rosie Hopkins Sweetshop of Dreams – Sounding Sweet!
Posted on Friday, March 30th, 2012 | News and Updates
Take a listen to Rosie Hopkins, now also available as an audio book!
Listen to a sample:
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Shifting…
Posted on Saturday, March 17th, 2012 | Blog Posts
Aha I have too many things going on to update a blog so we (me and the publishers) are gracefully conceding DEFEAT :) But everything that crosses my mind goes on a) twitter if it’s little and b) my facebook page if it’s potentially more interesting, so that’s where to find me- @jennycolgan or www.facebook.com/jennycolganbooks. See you there! Jenxxx
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Posted on Thursday, November 10th, 2011 | Blog Posts
HEY! And if you are thinking, huff, she never updates this blog, well, yes, okay, right but I DO update www.facebook.com/jennycolganbooks. Hmm, maybe we need a way to combine the two. We do, don’t we? That’s where all the nice recipes and everything go. Anyway,
Exciting news 1) Little, Brown, my publishers have asked for a follow up to Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe! Hurrah. It will be called Christmas at the Cupcake Cafe (hmm, can you guess what it’s about?) and it will be out late next year for Christmas 2012, and I absolutely cannot wait to get started on it.
Exciting news 2) is that next year’s book, Rosie Hopkins’ Sweetshop of Dreams is all finished and ready and the cover is gorgeous and early feedback is very flattering so that is exciting too. It’s out at the end of March. Hurrah! It’s about Rosie, a busy, harassed nurse in London who has to go to the country to take care of her elderly aunt after an operation. She thinks it is going to be the most boring thing she has ever done. It is NOT :). We’ve got some yummy sweet recipes in there too and lots of nice things.
Reading wise, my friend the brilliant Lucy Mangan recommended The Best of Everything which I utterly adored. It’s about New York girls in the 50s, a bit Mad Men, but so honest and fascinating and brilliant, it felt like it was written yesterday. Zone One, which is good, but I’m not sure we need another zombie apocalypse whilst the Walking Dead is just being so brilliant and Justin Cronin must surely be due to deliver the follow up to the Passage soon ; The Children of Men, which is COMPLETELY awesome- I loved the film, but the book is amazing in a completely different way; a very hyped new book with a beautiful cover which I found to be a fairly thin Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell rip- off (which IS brilliant); and Boomerang by Michael Lewis, who if you have the faintest interest in our current economic situation you should be reading almost constantly.
Hope you’re well! Jenxxx
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