Coming Up Next - Penny Smith

For my birthday recently I received Coming Up Next by Penny Smith. I had requested the book after seeing it on www.amazon.co.uk as one of my recommendations. I have obviously heard of Penny Smith from her appearances on GMTV but my most vivid memory of her is when she sang with Curtis Stigers on Just the Two of Us. I wouldn't say I am a huge fan but as it was someone I recognised and it is her first book I felt I would give it a try. The blurb on the back made the book sound interesting and a little different to the books I have been reading lately. I received quite a lot of books for my birthday and of all of them I chose to read Penny Smiths ...  Read the complete review

AUTHOR Penny Smith, says the blurb on the back of the book, has been a newsreader for 15 years. You would mostly see her behind the news desk on GMTV and occasionally on the main sofa on the same show. I've never really thought much about her, until my dad commented one day that she thought she had a brilliant sense of humour. After catching her on morning TV after he said this I was torn between finding her brand of humour funny and bizarre - a smart woman, likeable with a bit of something extra that the other presenters on that show don't have. With that in mind, and seeing the sub title saying "Breakfast Just Got Bitchier" I was looking forward to a ...  Read the complete review

I'm always on the prowl for the newest chick-lit offerings whenever I go into Waterstones or WH Smith, so when I saw that GMTV's newsreader Penny Smith had written her own novel I thought it was definitely going to be worth a read. The cover looked appealing, and soon enough my library had a new copy in so I took it home and started reading it straight away. Katie Fisher is the anchorwoman for the breakfast show Wake Up Britain! and thinks she is rather good at her job. So it comes as a bit of a shock to Katie when she's suddenly sacked in favour of the younger and more attractive Keera. Katie flees to her parents to escape the paparazzi but realises she ...  Read the complete review