ROISIN McAULEY
Roisin McAuley grew up in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland and still feels strongly connected to Ireland although she has lived and worked happily in England since 1984. Roisin was a reporter and documentary filmmaker for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 before beginning a second career as a novelist.
LATEST BOOK: FRENCH SECRETS
Honor Brady falls in love with wine merchant Hugo Lambert and moves to Astignac, a village in the French wine region Entre Deux Mers. Hugo sells rare wines to connossieurs; wines with a story; wines hidden during the war; wines rescued from the Winter Palace in St Petersburg . . .Melanie Miller, an American student, discovers that the grandfather who raised her, fathered a child in Astignac during the war. She sets out to find the relatives she never knew she had. Ivor Kitchoff, an American of Russian descent, wants to own one of the precious Romanoff bottles. But other, less salubrious Russians, are equally interested . . .All of these characters have their own reasons for coming to Astignac. But they share one thing in common: the need to know what is real and what is false. In love as well as wine.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: French Secrets, Sphere 2011 (Dom Quixote, Portugal, Novo Conceitp, Brazil); Finding Home, Sphere 2009, Droemer (Germany); House of Books (The Netherlands). Meeting Point, Headline Review, 2006, Harper Collins (US), Droemer (Germany); House of Books (The Netherlands). Singing Bird, Headline Book Publishing 2004 Harper Collins (US), Droemer (Germany), House of Books (The Netherlands). Emerald Greens: The Essential Guide to Holiday Golf in Ireland. Appletree Press 2000, Interlink (US).
