Making the A-list

Publisher Marketing: "A wickedly funny, bitchy, romp set at the heart of the trendy London art scene."Publishing News UK "Tyne O'Connell delivers some superbly sassy one-liners in this hilarious romp through the art world. Definitely a book for the modern girl." CHAT Magazine UK "A Clever chick-lit look at the highlife Brit style"USA TODAY A fictional account of the the author's real life experiences in the Brit Art world of the '90's From the stuffy grandeur of Mayfair galleries and auction houses to the high octane gritty glamour of the Shoreditch Art World - the story charges with all the energy of a night at the Groucho Club in Soho. Saskia Williams is earning a pittance as a curator at the Mayfair Gallery where she works & has big dreams for her place in the art world. She also has some romanticised notions about the men in it & she won't bederailed bya passion for vintage clothes that threatens to bankrupt her, nor herHome Counties mother determined to marry her off to the first willing candidate. But she IS about to discover that there's more to the blank white canvases of her gallery's latest installation & even more to the tall dark handsome man who's just walked in & written a big fat cheque for the the lot! Mystery, suspense & love amongst the easels - an insiders peep at what's really going on behind the fame, the money & the non-stop partying of the Art World. London's Art world and its famous personalities are richly embroidered throughout the intriguing story line. "Readers will no doubt enjoy this glimpse into sophisticated London nightlife." American Library Association Contributor Bio:  O'Connell, Tyne Tyne O'Connell is a bestselling British author. Her 13 novels have been published to great acclaim by Headline UK, Bloomsbury USA & other international publishing houses. Her books include the bestsellers, What's A Girl To Do? And the Pulling Princes teen series. Born into an Irish Catholic family, daughter of a retired spy, her favourite chore as a child was collecting eggs from the hens for sixpence. She began telling teachers & family she would be an author from age eight. Her first bestselling book was Sex, Lies & Litigation, pub1996 Headline Review. She's spent most of her life in Mayfair where she brought up two husbands & three children. The area is at the heart of many of her books. She writes about all things Mayfair: The Restoration, Bluestocking Salons, Roman Catholics, spies, eccentrics, royals & fashion for mayfaireccentrics.com, dandizettes.com and elsewhere. Visit her at www.tyneoconnell.com & follow her on Twitter @tyneoconnell O'Connell was educated by elderly Flemish Sacre-Coeur nuns (born in the 1870-80's) with the expectation that she would marry a diplomat. It was an unusual Victorian style upbringing & by 17, she was accomplished in Le Cordon Blue, Croquet, Semaphore, Literature, Latin, Needlepoint, Flower Arrangement, Diamond Valuation, Deportment, Millinery & Embassy Dinner Seating. After school she returned to London in a smart tweed suit perfectly prepared for a world that hadn't existed for decades. Her extraordinary life has been featured across all media, including TV documentaries & features in Vogue UK, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire and most UK broadsheets. Cassandra Jardine in The Daily Telegraph UK, hailed Tyne as "A modern day Elinor Glyn - the original It Girl." ELLE UK described her as "The Impossibly glamorous Tyne O'Connell." In 2004, Tyne began writing her bestselling fictional teen-series, Pulling Princes, BloomsburyUSA. Based on her three children's & her own experiences at single-sex boarding school; set near Windsor Castle in a fictional, exclusive all-girls boarding school close to Princes William & Harry's alma mater, Eton College. Narrated by an ordinary American teen, Calypso, as she navigates the Terrible Toffs & Horrible Hon.s' & opens the lid on the antics of royal teens. The books have been described as modern classics, an "up to date version of Angela Brazil's boarding school books of the early 1900's." www.calypsochronicles.com