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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books
  • First Book:
    October 1998
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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About the Author

Maggie Alderson was born in London, brought up in Staffordshire and educated at the University of St Andrews. She has worked on nine magazines - editing four of them - and is currently a fashion columnist with the Sydney Morning Herald. Her first novel, Pants on Fire, was a bestseller in Australia and the UK, and she was a co-editor of the charity anthology Big Night Out, in aid of War Child. She has also published two collections of non-fiction: Shoe Money and Handbag Heaven. She is marries and moves a lot.

Book List in Order: 15 titles



  • Have you ever wondered why even the truly stylish find it hard to do smart casual? Why all men look like James Bond in dinner jackets? Why all four-year-old girls are obsessed with pink? Why fashionable people always wear black? Why blondes have less...



  • Emily Pointer, stylist for Chic magazine, has a rule about fashion: never wear anything older than six months...unless it's so old you can pass it off as vintage. And never, ever fall in love, unless it's for a killer pair of Manolos. With a witt...



  • When London editor Georgia Abbott comes to Sydney to work on GLOW, a glossy women's magazine, she has high hopes for a bright new start. At first, things seem promising, as Georgia is swept up in a whirl of A-list parties, dancing, dinners and debau...



  • Too tired to doll up and head out for a night on the town? (It happens to the best of us.) Just dip into this year's must-read collection for a Girls' Night Out to remember and indulge in tales of reunions and weddings, sisters and friends, endings a...



  • Stella Fain has a rule for men she likes: Make them wait... But the gorgeous Jay proves an exception to the rule when he bowls Stella off her Prada wedges at a press junket on the Cote d'Azur. He might seem to have everything going for him, but S...



  • Of all the nightmare options that passed through Antonia Heaveringham's head when she knew her husband Hugo was homosexual. Antonia soon finds that an attractive single woman is not nearly so welcome on the champagne social scene as the wife of a gl...






  • Jess is having her Golden Moment -- she's successful, attractive and confident. When the drop-dead gorgeous Adam walks in to her cafe, it's love at first sight, but her friend Trina has been reading The Rules and warns her to play it cool. Will her i...






  • Amelia Bradlow seems to have everything she needs to be happy -- a handsome husband, a beautiful home, money, good looks, and a glamour job. Everything, that is, except the thing she wants most -- a baby.

    Ed, her husband, is funny, affectiona...



  • Loulou Landers, London’s undisputed Queen of Vintage Fashion, meets a man on the eve of her dreaded forty-ninth birthday. He’s kind, he’s sensitive, he’s divinely handsome and he carries a designer suit like George Clooney. Unfortunately, heâ...



  • Even the closest families have secrets...it’s when they are shared that things begin to change.

    Recently divorced Rachel is juggling her new dream job in interior design PR with the demands of two young daughters. She’s full of creative ...



  • Perfume blogger Polly is in crisis. Will her husband's absence break her ... or make her? A novel of perfumes, exploring life, love, loss and forgiveness - Maggie Alderson's new bestseller. 'Delicious and delightful in every way' Daily MailAre you st...





Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Maggie Alderson has published 15 books.

Maggie Alderson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Handbag Heaven, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Maggie Alderson, Shoe Money, was published in October 1998.

No. Maggie Alderson does not write books in series.