Famous author Carole Matthews at NEWI

NEWI welcomed famous chick-lit author Carole Matthews on Thursday 9 November.

Carole gave a talk entitled "Milton Keynes to Hollywood”, which charted her first tentative steps as a writer through to having three movies in development!

The event was organised by Gateway to Libraries in Wrexham (GaLW) and was very popular; over 30 people enjoyed the talk and used the opportunity to ask their own questions.

Carole Matthews is an international best-selling author of hugely successful romantic comedy novels. Her unique sense of humour has won her legions of fans and critical acclaim all over the world.

In the UK, her books include Let’s Meet on Platform 8, A Whiff of Scandal, More To Life Than This, For Better, For Worse, The Sweetest Taboo, and With or Without You. Her books A Minor Indiscretion and A Compromising Position both reached the Top 5 in the bestseller chart in the UK, and her latest paperback You Drive Me Crazy reached number 8 in the original fiction charts. Her latest novel Welcome To The Real World was out in August 2006.

She is currently published in 24 different countries, has presented on television and is a regular radio guest.