"It is sure to have fans of O'Connell's previous novels rolling on the floor laughing their royal crowns off." SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, USA "A Right Royal Read!" MAYFAIR TIMES UK "Funny exposé of It-girl school life." ELLE GIRL UK If you love Malory Towers you will love St Augustine's even more! Tyne O'Connell is the Enid Blyton of our day with her boarding school tales of St Augustine's, set right by Eton college & Windsor castle, & for a dash of royal glamour, there is the very real possibility that you might be rooming with a princess or better still pulling A Prince! At St Augustine's & nearby Eton College, attended by the Royal Princes, O'Connell gives teenagers everywhere the chance to experience the centuries old traditions of English Boarding Schools, with their midnight feasts, dorm raids & illicit trysts with boys along the bluebell pathways of ancient Puller's Woods. Best of all, readers get to experience this uniquely exclusive world of royals & privilege from someone whose lived it through her own & her three children's boarding school adventures. The St Augustine's boarding school series are must read classics for all ages. After all the boarding school action the series continues with the same characters at Oxford, London & into the Royal Castles where HRH Freds FAMED house parties offer a cheeky peak of the royals & friends at play. STEALING PRINCES is set in a exclusive all girl's boarding school near Windsor Castle close by is the fictionalised Eton College - as attended by Princes William & Harry - Pulling Princes is based on the author's own children's antics at boarding school - "A deliciously naughty insider's guide to the midnight feasts, close friendships & romances of royal teenagers." Book ChitChats Calypso is an ordinary American teen, plunged into the extraordinary world of the ancient British Boarding School system with all its mad traditions & customs, surrounded by the daughters of international royalty & rock-stars. But after three years of enduring the Terrible Toffs & Horrible Hon.s treating her like The American Freak, Calypso Kelly is determined to beat them at their own game by tricking them into believing she's dating a hot Hollywood boy. She may be able to rinse the Eades boys at sabre & dazzle the girls with a poster of her "fake Hollywood boyfriend" - but with the paparazzi lurking behind every hedge, her phone confiscated & the not-so-Honourable Honey O'Hare plotting against her, can Calypso manage to pull it off AND pull the Prince? Its a new term at St Augustine's. Calypso, exhausted from her from her flight from LA, lugs her trunks up the ancient oak staircase, unaided by the bustling valets, maids, parents, man-servants & body-guards of the other girls. Her heart sinks when she discovers she's roomed with psycho toff, The Hon. Honey O'Hare & the beautiful & aloof Lady Portia Herrington-Briggs. On top of that, her innocent txt-flirtations with the heir-to-the-throne HRH Prince Freds & the Eades Fencing captain, Billy are getting well...complicated to say the least. Which boy will she choose & is the choice even her's to make? Is Lady Portia Herrington-Briggs txt-ing with Freds? In a term of moon-lit picnics, Body Shop bottles concealing Vodka drinking, texting-torture & romantic muddles over whose pulling whom, all anyone really cares about is an invite to the Royal Euro Ball. But Calypso get her Cinderella-perfect ending, or will Honey finally manage to turn her into a frog? "Funny exposé of It-girl school life." ELLE GIRL UK "Budding Anglophiles ....will soak up the flood of upper-class British culture in this book." WASHINGTON COUNTY LIBRARY "A Right Royal Read!" MAYFAIR TIMES "Bridget Jones for the early teen set."- WASHINGTON POST USA "Give this to fans of Princess Mia and Georgia Nicholson"BOOKLIST, USA "There is never a dull moment in this boarding school....Plenty of laugh-out-loud moments" - VOYA
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
