Books Read: Nicola Doherty - Girls on Tour

Four girls. One year. 

Five fabulous destinations. 

Poppy is bound for Paris, the City of Love. Could this be her chance to end her epic dry spell? 

Lily is en route to her cousin's wedding in LA, where she's willing to break a few rules to land her dream role. 

Maggie can't wait for her romantic ski holiday in Meribel - until it goes seriously off-piste. 

Rachel packs for a glamorous Roman holiday, but a blast from the past is about to sabotage la dolce vita. 

The girls get together and fly to Manhattan. But someone's been hiding a big secret in the Big Apple... 

Hilarious, romantic and unputdownable, Girls on Tour is an irresistible series of interlinked stories about four ordinary girls who have extraordinary fun in faraway places. Follow them in an unforgettable year that includes breaking up, making up, new jobs and some big surprises...

Amazon  links: Kindle or Paperback

Irish Fiction Week Review: Nicola Doherty - Maggie does Meribel

Maggie can't wait for her first ever skiing holiday. New Year's Eve in the French Alps with her boyfriend Leo and two other couples: what could be more romantic? She's picturing hot chocolate, romantic snowball fights and evenings snuggled together in front of the log fire. What she didn't picture is near-death experiences on the mountains, falling out with Leo and sharing a chalet with the unbearable Jenny. When she meets Sylvain, a gorgeous ski instructor, the line between harmless flirting and full-on misbehaviour becomes ... well, blurry. Will Maggie stay on the nursery slopes, or go seriously off-piste?

Amazon link: Kindle

Irish Fiction Week Guest Review: Nicola Doherty - If I Could Turn Back Time

Reviewed by Tanya Phillips

What if you found The One, then lost him again? 

Or not so much lost him as became the neurotic, needy girlfriend from hell. The girl who tried to make him choose between her and his job, and got seriously paranoid about his relationship with his female best friend... 

Zoë Kennedy knows she doesn't deserve another chance with David Fitzgerald. But if there's the tiniest possibility of making things right, she'll snatch it. Even if it means breaking the laws of physics to do so...

Amazon links: Kindle or Paperback

Books Read: Nicola Doherty - Poppy Does Paris (Girls on Tour Book 1)

Paris. City of love, city of romance. The last place you want to go to on a work trip when you're in the middle of an epic dry spell. But that's where Poppy is headed, along with her colleague Charlie, who's shallow and annoying but very, very good-looking. 

During a white-wine-fuelled session with her friend Alice, Poppy concocts the perfect plan: work by day, and have some no-strings fun with Charlie by night. Of course, it might prove a little more complicated than that, but it's nothing Poppy can't handle - or is it?

Amazon link: Kindle

Coming soon from Headline & Tinder Press

This Summer is certainly turning out to be a busy one for book lovers as there are so many fab books being published, today I've decided to feature a few of the books that Headline Review and Tinder Press will be publishing this July and August.  Which ones will you be adding to your wishlist?

Season to Taste or How to Eat Your Husband by Natalie Young (published 3rd July)

Always let the meat rest under foil for at least ten minutes before carving...

Meet Lizzie Prain. Ordinary housewife. Fifty-something. Lives in a cottage in the woods, with her dog Rita. Likes cooking, avoids the neighbours. Runs a little business making cakes.

No one has seen Lizzie's husband, Jacob, for a few days. That's because last Monday, on impulse, Lizzie caved in the back of his head with a spade. And if she's going to embark on the new life she feels she deserves after thirty years in Jacob's shadow, she needs to dispose of his body. Her method appeals to all her practical instincts, though it's not for the faint-hearted. Will Lizzie have the strength to follow it through?

Strange Girls and Ordinary Women by Morgan McCarthy (published 3rd July)

They say you know instinctively who to trust.

Alice is normal; she'd never do anything rash. But when she sees her husband one day with a younger girl, she knows at once that he's having an affair. And it must be stopped.

Vic loves her friend Michael, more than he knows. He wants happiness, and thinks he's found it with the magnetic Estella. But Vic feels sure she can't be trusted - and she needs to make Michael see that too.

They don't know Kaya; her life is tougher than they can imagine. But Kaya's a survivor, and she's determined to find a way out of her miserable world.

Three women, three lives that come crashing together in this dark, lyrical and utterly enthralling story of warped perceptions, female intuition and 'the other woman'.

Guest post: How to write a novel about time travel: first, pick your year by Nicola Doherty

Today I'm pleased to be taking part in the If I Could Turn Back Time blog tour organised by Bookbridgr with an article written by Nicola Doherty about how to write a novel about time travel.

My latest book If I Could Turn Back Time has just been published in paperback. Yet it’s set in 2010. So I suppose you could say that I’ve written a historical novel. I had to research it and everything – including drawing up colour-coded timelines and ordering copies of Grazia and Vogue from 2010 on eBay to nail all the fashion trends (it’s a hard life).

Why is the story set in 2010? Well, I had the idea for the book in December 2010 and wrote the synopsis then, but I didn’t actually start writing it until the following summer, and delivered the first draft in April 2012. I then delivered the second draft in September 2012. So I could have set it either in 2010, 2011 or 2012. 

Because Zoë was living through the summer for the second time, it had to contain a memorable event for her to be able to predict – so that when she finally told someone about her time-travel experience they would believe her. The year 2012 was too recent; it was happening as I was writing, and I had to be able to look back on events and play around with them. Also, the Olympics would have dominated it and Zoë’s not interested in sport at all.