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Anna Bell is an American author of chick-lit and contemporary romance novels.

She has also written three novels under her pen name, Annabell Scott.

A hopeless romantic who at one point unsuccessfully interviewed for the TV show The Apprentice, Anna Bell once drunkenly told her husband that she would one day become a published author. This happened after they passed a leading publisher in London.

She has lived to fulfill that promise, as she has now authored several books that have been published in ten different languages.

Anna Bell is now a full-time writer, having previously had a career as a museum curator.

She has two children and lives with her husband in a sleepy village in South West France.

Anna Bell is agented by Viola Hayden at Curtis Brown.

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Genres: Chick Lit, Contemporary , Romance

United States

Pseudonym: Annabell Scott

Website: https://www.annabellwrites.com/

Non Series

  • The Bucket List to Mend a Broken Heart (2016)
  • The Good Girlfriend's Guide to Getting Even (2017)
  • It Started with a Tweet (2017)
  • If We're Not Married by Thirty (2018)
  • We Just Clicked (2020)
  • The Man I Didn't Marry (2021)
  • Note to Self (2022)

Don't Tell the Groom

  1. Don't Tell the Groom (2012)
  2. Don't Tell the Boss (2014)
  3. Don't Tell the Brides-To-Be (2015)

Millie Books

  1. Millie and the American University (2013)
  2. Millie and the American Wedding (2012)
  3. Millie and the American Proposal (2014)

Novellas

  1. Don't Tell Penny (2014)

Omnibus Books

  1. The Bucket List to Mend a Broken Heart / The Good Girlfriend's Guide to Getting Even / It Started With A Tweet (2020)

Detailed book overview

Non Series

The Bucket List to Mend a Broken Heart

Abi's barely left her bed since Joseph, the love of her life, dumped her, saying they were incompatible. When Joseph leaves a box of her possessions on her doorstep, she finds a bucket list of 10 things she never knew he wanted to do.

What better way to win him back than by completing the list, and proving they're a perfect match? But there's just one problem—or rather, 10. Abi's not exactly the outdoorsy type, and she's absolutely terrified of heights3not ideal for a list that includes climbing a mountain, cycling around the Isle of Wight and, last but not least, abseiling down the tallest building in town.

Completing the list is going to need all Abi's courage—and a lot of help from her friends. But as she heals her broken heart one task at a time, the newly confident Abi might just have a surprise in store.

Author: Anna Bell
First Release: 2016
ISBN: 978-1785760372
Publisher: Zaffre Publishing
The Good Girlfriend's Guide to Getting Even

A hilarious new romantic comedy from the author of It Started With A Tweet and The Bucket List to Mend a Broken Heart, for fans of Lucy Diamond and Sophie Kinsella When Lexi's sport-mad boyfriend Will skips her friend's wedding to watch football - after pretending to have food poisoning - it might just be the final whistle for their relationship. But fed up of just getting mad, Lexi decides to even the score.

And, when a couple of lost tickets and an 'accidentally' broken television lead to them spending extra time together, she's delighted to realize that revenge might be the best thing that's happened to their relationship. And if her clever acts of sabotage prove to be a popular subject for her blog, what harm can that do? It's not as if he'll ever find out.

Author: Anna Bell
First Release: 2017
ISBN: 978-1785760396
Publisher: Zaffre Publishing
It Started with a Tweet

Daisy Hobson lives her whole life online. A marketing manager by day, she tweets her friends, Instagrams every meal and arranges (frankly, appalling) dates on Tinder. But when her social media obsession causes her to make a catastrophic mistake at work, Daisy finds her life going into free fall....

Her sister, Rosie, thinks she has the answer to all of Daisy's problems - a digital detox in a remote cottage in Cumbria that she just happens to need help doing up. Soon, too, Daisy finds herself with two welcome distractions: sexy French exchange-help Jean-Marie and Jack, the brusque and rugged man next door who keeps accidentally rescuing her. But can Daisy, a London girl, ever really settle into life in a tiny, isolated village? And, more importantly, can she survive without her phone?

Author: Anna Bell
First Release: 2017
ISBN: 978-1785763694
Publisher: Zaffre Publishing
If We're Not Married by Thirty

Lydia's not exactly #LivingHerBestLife. She never imagined she'd be here at thirty - newly single, a job that's going nowhere and her friends all winning at life when she's still barely taking part. So she jumps at the chance of a free holiday and jets off to sunny Spain.

Then, out of the blue, she bumps into her childhood friend, the handsome and charming Danny Whittaker. She's always had a crush on him and they soon enter into a passionate holiday romance.

But this relationship could be more than just a fling. Years ago they made a pact that if they were still single when they turned thirty they would get married. But noone really follows through on these pacts...right?

Could Lydia's back-up man really be her happy ever after?

Author: Anna Bell
First Release: 2018
ISBN: 978-1785764783
Publisher: Zaffre Publishing
We Just Clicked

Izzy’s always played by the rules. But now, it’s time to break them…

Izzy Brown has always dreamed of making it big on Instagram, but her followers just aren’t growing. So when her colleague and fellow ‘influencer’ Luke suggests they fake date to boost their profiles, Izzy says yes – against her better judgement. Now Izzy’s profile shows a confident, glamorous thirty-something with the perfect boyfriend, and her followers are shooting up by the thousands.

So what if behind the scenes, things are a little different? Izzy can’t stop bickering with Luke, his habit of checking his quiff in EVERY SINGLE mirror is driving her insane, and she’s hiding a secret heartache. But everyone tells a few fibs on social media, right?

Then Izzy runs into Aidan, the mysterious stranger who saved her the day her world fell apart two years ago – and major sparks start to fly. Izzy’s sure she can have the online success she’s always dreamed of, whilst falling in love in real life. After all, Aidan doesn’t use social media…what could possibly go wrong?

Author: Anna Bell
First Release: 2020
ISBN: 978-0008340773
Publisher: HQ
The Man I Didn't Marry

What happens when the man she married can’t remember her?

Ellie has the perfect life: a happy marriage, a gorgeous daughter and a baby on the way. But when her husband Max develops amnesia, he forgets everything about the last five years...including their relationship.

Now the man she said ‘I do’ to has become a stranger, and she has no idea why. Yet Ellie is determined to reconnect and find her Max again – he has to be in there somewhere, right?

As they get to know one another afresh, Ellie finds herself seeing Max clearly for the first time. But then she discovers that before his memory loss, Max was keeping a huge secret from her. Will their new beginning prove to be a false start, just as it seemed they might fall in love all over again?

Author: Anna Bell
First Release: 2021
ISBN: 978-0008340803
Publisher: HQ
Note to Self

It’s never too late to follow your heart.

One summer’s day seventeen years ago Edie and Joel meet.

Their connection is instant and a friendship is born, although Edie can’t help but wish for more. But just as she builds up the courage to lay her heart on the line, one night changes everything…

Edie’s moved on from the heartbreak of years ago. So the last thing she expects to receive on her thirty-fifth birthday is an email… from her eighteen-year-old self. As more emails arrive, she starts to remember what – or rather who – she left behind.

Following her own advice, Edie heads back to the place where it all began, and finds her path unexpectedly crossing with Joel’s once more. Could this finally be their chance at love? Or are some things better left in the past?

Author: Anna Bell
First Release: 2022
ISBN: 978-0008467630
Publisher: HQ

Don't Tell the Groom

Don't Tell the Groom

Penny has big dreams for her wedding day. She has been saving for ages to make her dream a reality.

So when Mark finally pops the question, it's the best moment of her life. But when she checks her wedding fund she is horrified to discover that something has gone terribly wrong. And so, operation 'Don't Tell the Groom' rolls into action, with surprising, hilarious and moving results.

Will Penny be able to keep her secret long enough to say 'I do'?

Author: Anna Bell
First Release: 2012
ISBN: 978-1848663619
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Don't Tell the Boss

When newlywed Penny turns her hand to some casual wedding planning she only wants to help other women afford the big day of their dreams. But taming bridezillas turns out to be a full-time occupation, and what began as a hobby becomes a personal and professional nightmare. Soon Penny is struggling to keep her day job and prevent her own marriage from collapsing under the strain: tired, stressed and knee-deep in ivory satin, is Penny's life and livelihood hanging by a thread?

Author: Anna Bell
First Release: 2014
ISBN: 978-1848663664
Publisher: Quercus
Don't Tell the Brides-To-Be

With a baby on the way and her business starting to boom, has Penny finally found her happily ever after?

Things are looking up for Penny Robinson. She's kicked her gambling addiction and even started her own business: Princess on a Shoestring, an all-inclusive service for brides-to-be looking to pinch pennies on their big day. Between family fights and wardrobe calamities, wedding planning is no piece of cake, but Penny's got it all under control.

That is, until a rival planner decides to take her down—one hard-won bride at a time. Now Penny must fight to save her reputation and her livelihood before it's too late. But when a romantic weekend away has some unexpected consequences, Penny's expectations for her career are brought back down to earth with a bump.

Author: Anna Bell
First Release: 2015
ISBN: 978-1848663688
Publisher: Quercus

Millie Books

Millie and the American University

Millie’s always dreamt of being American, thanks to an obsession with US Television shows. As the only English girl on campus, she realizes that she could live her very own American dream: joining a sorority and bagging an all American boyfriend. Only when Millie finds a friend in Kristen, she alienates Casey and Jen, the sorority girls who’d taken her under their wing.

Millie discovers that Casey is not a woman to be crossed, and she soon finds herself living an American nightmare with her scholarship under threat, and the all American boyfriend ending things before they really start.

NB: Anna Bell writing as Annabel Scott.

Author: Anna Bell
First Release: 2013
Ebook: B00E2SE534
Millie and the American Wedding

Millie accidentally accepts an invitation to be a bridesmaid at an American Wedding in New York. It's Millie's worst nightmare. Not only has she slept with the groom, but her ex boyfriend (the one that got away) is the best man and he's married.

As her friend, Kristen, gets ready for the best day of her life, Millie gears up for the worst week of hers.

NB: Anna Bell writing as Annabel Scott.

Author: Anna Bell
First Release: 2012
Ebook: B00737RP7Y
Millie and the American Proposal

Millie’s boyfriend James gets offered a job in Singapore, he accepts, thinking that she’ll give up her job and go with him. Only Millie gets offered a work secondment to New York which is too good an opportunity to turn down. When she arrives in the city, she soon discovers that she’s not the only one new in town; her ex-boyfriend, Rob, is back, and he’s separated from his wife. It’s time for Millie to work out what she wants from life. She’s got to decide whether she’s Team James or Team Rob as she gets her very own American Proposal.

NB: Anna Bell writing as Annabel Scott.

Author: Anna Bell
First Release: 2014
Ebook: B00I6KTPWU

Novellas

Don't Tell Penny

When Penny tells her best friend Lou sheâ??s sure tonight is the night that her fiancé Mark will finally propose, Lou couldn't be more pleased for her. But during the course of a wild night out on the town, Lou can't help but wonder if marriage is really the thing on Markâ??s mind--and Penny hasn't noticed a thing! Could it fall on Lou to break the news gently, or will Mark bend his knee before it's just too late?

Author: Anna Bell
First Release: 2014
Ebook: B00LZYC6P2
Publisher: Quercus

Omnibus Books

The Bucket List to Mend a Broken Heart / The Good Girlfriend's Guide to Getting Even / It Started With A Tweet

THREE BOOKS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE.

Stay in with a selection of three of Anna Bell's cozy, laugh-out-loud stories, in one volume for the first time!

THE BUCKET LIST TO MEND A BROKEN HEART

Abi's barely left her bed since Joseph, the love of her life, dumped her, saying they were incompatible. When Joseph leaves a box of her possessions on her doorstep, she finds a bucket list of ten things she never knew he wanted to do. Will completing the action-packed list - no easy challenge for the naturally timid Abi - be the way to win back her man? Or might Abi just have a surprise in store ...?

THE GOOD GIRLFRIEND'S GUIDE TO GETTING EVEN

When Lexi's sport-mad boyfriend Will skips her friend's wedding to watch football - after pretending to have food poisoning - it might just be the final whistle for their relationship.

But fed up of just getting mad, Lexi decides to even the score. And, when a couple of lost tickets and an 'accidentally' broken television lead to them spending extra time together, she's delighted to realize that revenge might be the best thing that's happened to their relationship.

And if her clever acts of sabotage prove to be a popular subject for her blog, what harm can that do? It's not as if he'll ever find out . . .

IT STARTED WITH A TWEET

Daisy Hobson lives her whole life online. But when her social media obsession causes her to make a catastrophic mistake at work, Daisy finds her life going into free-fall . . .

Her sister Rosie thinks she has the answer to all of Daisy's problems - a digital detox in a remote cottage in Cumbria. Soon, too, Daisy meets a welcome distraction there in Jack, the rugged man-next-door.

But can Daisy, a London girl, ever really settle into life in a tiny, isolated village?

And, more importantly, can she survive without her phone?

Author: Anna Bell
First Release: 2020
Ebook: B086WM4LWC
Publisher: Zaffre Publishing