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Tyne O'Connell
Tyne O'Connell in Mayfair
Tyne O'Connell in Mayfair
Born1960
Windsor
OccupationNovelist
NationalityBritish
Period1996 - present
GenreRomantic Comedy, Contemporary Women's Literature, Teen Fiction

Tyne O'Connell (full name Clementyne Rose O'Connell) is a British author born in Windsor who lives and works in Mayfair, London. Mayfair serves as a backdrop in many of her contemporary women's fiction books including Making The A list published by Headline Review 1999 and Sex With The Ex published Red Dress Ink UK 2004. She has written for publications such as Ms.,[1] Elle UK and Journal.[2] Her short stories appear in Girls' Night Out and Kid's Night In. She is a contributor to Holiday Goddess. O'Connell is The Eccentrics Club's (whose patron is HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh), “Most Eccentric Thinker of the Year” 2015. [3]

Contemporary fiction

O'Connell's first novel, Sex, Lies and Litigation was published in the UK in 1996 by Headline Review. Headline Review published five books by O'Connell, the most popular of which was What's A Girl to Do?. In 2000 she made her US publishing début with The Sex Was Great But..., published by RDI and followed by Sex With The Ex.

O'Connell's stories tend to feature British eccentrics and aristocrats.[citation needed]

YA fiction

In 2003 O'Connell began writing young adult fiction. Pulling Princes published by Bloomsbury US and Piccadilly UK, and translated into 13 languages was the first in the Calypso Chronicles. The series of four books focus on the adventures of a group of privileged and aristocratic teenagers attending two English single-sex boarding schools in Berkshire.

Pulling Princes, Stealing Princes, Dueling Princes & Dumping Princes were published by Bloomsbury US and Piccadilly UK. A further teen novel was published by Bloomsbury US in 2007: True Love, The Sphinx and Other Unsolvable Riddles which the School Library Journal referred to as "This flirty, fun romcom, told from four distinctive points of view, reads like an old-time comedy of errors. O'Connell describes Egypt with such vitality and richness that it shines as a separate character. This novel is a trip worth taking.."[4]

In 2011, coinciding with the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, O'Connell's first two books from the Calypso Chronicles were published together in the UK, US and several other countries in a single volume entitled A Royal Match. This was followed by A Royal Mess a single volume of books three and four in the series.

Film

Tyne O'Connell played the roll of the Madam in John Story and Anthony Zaki's film Against Nature[5] based on Joris-Karl Huysmans novel 'A Rebours'. The film co-starred Allan Corduner and Adrian Dunbar along with the well-known dandy Robin Dutt[6] Set in private members club Home House.

Publications

  • Sex, Lies and Litigation (1996) Headline Review
  • Latest Accessory (1997) Headline Review
  • What's a Girl To Do? (1998) Headline Review
  • Making the A-list (1999) Headline Review
  • That Girl-Boy Thing (2000) Headline Review
  • The Sex Was Great But... (2004) Red Dress Ink
  • Sex with the Ex (2005) Red Dress Ink
  • Pulling Princes (2003) Bloomsbury USA/Piccadilly Press UK
  • Stealing Princes (2004) Bloomsbury USA/Piccadilly Press UK
  • Duelling Princes (2005) Bloomsbury USA/Piccadilly Press UK
  • Dumping Princes (2006) Bloomsbury USA/Piccadilly Press UK
  • True Love, the Sphinx and Other Unsolvable Riddles (2007) Bloomsbury USA/Piccadilly Press UK
  • A Royal Match (2010) Bloomsbury USA/Piccadilly Press UK
  • A Royal Mess (2011) Bloomsbury USA
  • Pulling Princes - A Royal Christmas (2014)
  • The Mayfair Cook (2014)

Notes

  1. ^ O'Connell, T: Ms. Magazine US, page 92. September/October 1998
  2. ^ O'Connell, T: "Journal", page 46. IPC Magazines, March 2000
  3. ^ http://www.eccentricclub.net/great-british-eccentric.php
  4. ^ School Library Journal, 2008, Reed Business Publications
  5. ^ Against Nature - on IMBD
  6. ^ Robin Dutt - The Independent, 30th September 2000

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