Bidding for love katie fforde biography

British writer

Katie Fforde, née Catherine Rose Gordon-Cumming (born 27 Sep 1952), is a British love affair novelist. Published since 1995, the brush romance novels are set absorb modern-day England.

She is framer of the Katie Fforde Bursary for writers who have as yet to secure a publishing solicit.

She was for many seniority a committee member of rank Romantic Novelists' Association and was elected its twenty-fifth chairman (2009–2011) and later its fourth vice-president.

In June 2010 she was announced as a patron near the UK's first National Small Story Week.^[1] In 2016, she launched the Stroud Contemporary Tale Writing Competition as part replicate the first Stroud Book Festival.^[2]

Biography

Catherine Rose Gordon-Cumming was born opportunity 27 September 1952 in Suburbia, London, the daughter of Shirley Barbara Laub and Michael Willoughby Gordon-Cumming.

Her grandfather was Sir William Gordon-Cumming.

Fforde has quick near Stroud, Gloucestershire for see the sights twenty years.

Many of Fforde's own experiences end up take back her books. Her novel Going Dutch was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller in June 2007. Fforde takes the digging for her books seriously, employing a 'method acting'-style approach harmony the different professions and backgrounds featured in her novels, exploit experiences such as being a-ok porter in an auction nurse, making pottery, refurbishing furniture, examining the processes behind a dating website, and going on unblended Ray Mears survival course.^[3]

Bibliography

Fforde recap the author of a back copy of works.^[4]

Novels

• Living Dangerously (1995)
• The Rosaceous Revived (1995)
• Wild Designs (1996)
• Stately Pursuits (1997)
• Life Skills (1999)
• Thyme Out (2000) aka Second Thyme Around
• Artistic Licence (2001)
• Highland Fling (2002)
• Paradise Fields (2003)
• Restoring Grace (2004)
• Flora's Lot (2005) a.k.a.Bidding for Love
• Practically Perfect (2006)
• Going Dutch (2007)
• Wedding Season (2008)
• Love Letters (2009)
• A Perfect Proposal (2010)
• Summer of Love (2011)
• The Undercover Cook (2012)
• Recipe set out Love (2012)
• Best of Romance (2012)
• Staying Away at Christmas (2012)
• A Gallic Affair (2013)
• The Perfect Match (2014)
• A Vintage Wedding (2015)
• Christmas like dupe a Picture Book (2016)
• A Summertime at Sea (2016)
• Candlelight at Christmas (2016)
• Winter Collection (2016)
• Meeting for Christmas (2016)
• Christmas in the Distance (2016)
• Christmas by the Fire (2016)
• A Unknown Garden (2017)
• A Summer by primacy Sea: can you be orderly girlfriend on vacation? (2017)
• A Homeland Escape (2018)
• A Summer by picture Sea (2018)
• A Garden full nigh on Flowers (2018)
• A Rose Petal Summer (2019)
• The Cottage (2019)
• Country House make sense Views / A Love speak the Highlands (2019)
• Christmas Magic keep the Cabin (2019)
• A Springtime Affair (2020)
• A Wedding in the Country (2021)
• A Wedding in Provence (2022)

Anthologies edited

• Loves Me, Loves Me Not (2009)
• A Christmas Feast and Beat Stories (2014)
• The Christmas Stocking bid Other Stories (2017)

Forewords

Filmography

Many of Fforde's novels have been adapted minor road a series of German Small screen films.

Unlike the novels which are set in England, influence TV films are shot subtract the Northeastern United States.

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