Today’s blog post is the 2nd in a new series featuring an A-Z of My Favourite Authors & Books. Every Monday I’ll be blogging about my all-time favourite books from authors with surnames beginning with that week’s letter.
P.S. If you’ve missed any of my previous posts, you’ll find links to them all in the Archives.
Today’s letter is B and my 4 x Favourite Authors & Books are as follows:
AUTHOR: Tessa Bailey (Website / Instagram / Twitter)
New York Times Bestselling author Tessa Bailey can solve all problems except for her own, so she focuses those efforts on stubborn, fictional blue collar men and loyal, lovable heroines. She lives on Long Island avoiding the sun and social interactions, then wonders why no one has called. Dubbed the “Michelangelo of dirty talk,” by Entertainment Weekly, Tessa writes with spice, spirit, swoon and a guaranteed happily ever after (Author Website).
Books I’ve Read by This Author: 21 including Need Me (Need Me) (My Favourite Professor & Student Romances), Window Shopping (12 Bookish Dates of Christmas) & It Happened One Summer (Five Star Reads – July 2022).
BOOK: Unfixable (2014)
Side Note: I’m as guilty as anybody of being influenced by the latest BookTok trends but even though ‘It Happened One Summer’ was a Five Star Read, I’ve gone all the way back to 2014 (before TikTok) for my favourite TB novel.
He’s the last thing she wants…but the only thing she needs.
Willa Peet isn’t interested in love. She’s been there, done that, and has the shattered heart to prove it. Ready to shake the breakup, she heads to Dublin, Ireland. But there’s a problem. A dark-haired, blue-eyed problem with a bad attitude that rivals her own. And he’s not doling out friendly Irish welcomes.
Shane Claymore just wants to race. The death of his father forced him off the Formula One circuit, but he’s only staying in Dublin long enough to sell the Claymore Inn and get things in order for his mother and younger sister. He never expected the sarcastic American girl staying at the inn to make him question everything.
But even as Willa and Shane’s fiery natures draw them together, their pasts threaten to rip them apart. Can Shane give up racing to be with the woman he loves, or will Willa’s quest to resurrect the tough-talking, no-shit-taking girl she used to be destroy any hope of a future together?
WHAT’S NEXT? Wreck The Halls (3 October 2023) & Fangirl Down (6 February 2024).
AUTHOR: Louise Bay (Website / Instagram / Twitter)
International, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author, Louise Bay writes sexy, contemporary romance novels – the kind she likes to read.
Ruined by bonk-busters and sexy mini-series of the eighties Louise loves all things sexy and romantic. There’s not enough of it in real life so she disappears into the fictional worlds in books and films.
Louise loves the rain, the West Wing, London, days when she doesn’t have to wear make-up, being on her own, being with friends, elephants and champagne (Author Website).
Books I’ve Read by This Author: 29 including The 14 Days of Christmas (12 Bookish Dates of Christmas), A Week in New York (A New York State of Mind) & Dr Off-Limits (Five Star Reads – October 2022)
BOOK: Hopeful (2014)
I’ve spent the last eight years working hard to put my career front and centre in my life, dodging any personal complications. I have a strict no-dating policy. I’ve managed to piece together a reality that works for me.
Eight years ago, Joel Wentworth, the love of my life, left for New York. I’d refused to go with him and I haven’t seen him again. Never even spoken to him.
Until now.
Now, Joel’s coming back to London.
And I need to get over him before he gets over here.
WHAT’S NEXT? Dr CEO (3 August 2023).
AUTHOR: Sarina Bowen (Website / Instagram / Twitter)
Sarina Bowen is a 24-time USA Today bestselling author, and a Wall Street Journal bestselling author of contemporary romance novels. Formerly a derivatives trader on Wall Street, Sarina holds a BA in economics from Yale University.
A New Englander whose Vermont ancestors cut timber and farmed the north country in the 1760s, Sarina is grateful for the invention of indoor plumbing and wi-fi during the intervening 250 years. She lives with her family on a few wooded acres in New Hampshire (Author Website).
Books I’ve Read by This Author: 39 including The Shameless Hour (#4) (My Favourite Books of 2021) & The Fifteenth Minute (#5) (Five Star Reads – August & September 2021) from The Ivy Years. Waylaid (#8) (Five Star Reads – August & September 2021) from True North. Sure Shot (#4) (Five Star Reads – May – 2020) & Bombshells (#5) (Five Star Reads – April 2021) from Brooklyn. Moonlighter (#1) (Five Star Reads April 2020) from The Company. Boy Toy (#3) (Five Star Reads -May 2020) from Man Hands with Tanya Eby.
BOOK: Brooklynaire (Brooklyn Bruisers #4) (2018)
Side Note: One of my all-time favourite reads. I could legit write an essay on how much I heart Nate and Becca.
You’d think a billion dollars, a professional hockey team and a six-bedroom mansion on the Promenade would satisfy a guy. You’d be wrong.
For seven years Rebecca has brightened my office with her wit and her smile. She manages both my hockey team and my sanity. I don’t know when I started waking in the night, craving her. All I know is that one whiff of her perfume ruins my concentration. And her laugh makes me hard.
When Rebecca gets hurt, I step in to help. It’s what friends do. But what friends don’t do is rip off each other’s’ clothes for a single, wild night together.
Now she’s avoiding me. She says we’re too different, and it can never happen again. So why can’t we keep our hands off each other?
WHAT’S NEXT? I’m Your Guy (2 November 2023)
AUTHOR: Gemma Burgess (Website / Instagram)
Gemma started writing anti-romantic comedies for girls who like chicklit that comforts and charms without the silly fluffy bits. She lives in Notting Hill in London, but grew up all over the place – mostly Hong Kong. She loves talking and writing, not necessarily in that order.
She also loves burgers, vodka, white-tipped Marlboro Lights, OK GO, Sixteen Candles, Lucky Jim, anything from Nora Ephron and Jilly Cooper, new wave music and clothes (Goodreads).
Books I’ve Read by This Author: 3
BOOK: The Wild One (Brooklyn Girls #3) (2015) (A New York State of Mind)
Series: Brooklyn Girls (#1) & Love and Chaos (#2)
Sweet, innocent Coco has always been the good one. But when she catches her boyfriend cheating on her, she decides it’s time to break bad.
Coco swiftly goes from spending all her time baking and reading to working nights in (and dancing on) a bar, falling in and out of love (and lust), stealing education – and along the way discovers that she is stronger than she ever knew… In a time when her best friends are suddenly plunged into break ups, break-downs, big breaks, and on the verging of quitting New York City altogether, it’s up to Coco to keep them together and find herself along the way.
Louise Hall 
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