Carole Matthews
Biography
Carole Matthews
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 Scandaland More To Life Than This. A Minor Indiscretion and A Compromising Position both reached the Top 5 in the Sunday Times bestseller chart in the UK. Her latest paperback With or Without You is out now in the UK in paperback. Carole's next Hardback You Drive Me Crazy is out in the UK in May.
In the USA, the hilarious For Better, For Worse is being made into a movie and was also selected by one of America's top TV books clubs --- Reading with Ripa on LIVE with Regis and Kelly --- as their book of the month. As a result it went straight into the USA Today and New York Times Extended bestseller lists. Her other books currently available in America are A Minor Indiscretion and The Sweetest Taboo - the rights of which have also been sold to Hollywood. Let's Meet on Platform 8 will follow in August 2004. She is currently published in 17 different countries.
This year Carole has donated short stories for 2 charity books, the first is Sexy Shorts for Summer in the UK, with proceeds going to UK Cancer Research. The second is Girls Night In which is being published in September in the USA, with proceeds going to War Child.
Carole has presented on television and is a regular radio guest. She has a monthly book and film review slot on BBC Three Counties Radio, and a monthly book review on BBC Radio Northampton's Anna Murby Show. When she's not writing novels, television or film scripts she manages to find time to trek in the Himalayas, rollerblade in Central Park, take tea in China and snooze in her garden shed in Milton Keynes which is near London, England.
Carole Matthews