The Love Academy: lessons in love Italian style from bestselling author Belinda Jones - Tapa blanda

"The Love Academy has a cracking support cast in Tiffany the American gold-digger and Melvin the vertically challenged letch, and Kirsty is a loveable heroine who deserves to have romance back in her life. Fans of Belinda Jones will recognise her warm, funny style and newcomers will find themselves drawn to her great characterisation. Bellini's and blind-dating: hold the plane, we'll be right over" (heat)

"This is a perfect feel-good holiday read which I devoured in one weekend" (Sun)

Do you have enough romance in your life?

Journalist Kirsty Bailey would have to answer no. She has the essential starter kit - a boyfriend - but somehow Joe seems to have skipped the vows of for better/for worse and gone straight to for granted.

But then just as she's on the verge of settling for a swoon-free existence, Kirsty's magazine sends her to a majestic Venetian palazzo to attend the much gossiped-about Love Academy... Her undercover mission? To prove her editor's theory that this 'school for singles' is nothing more than an escort agency with a sexy accent and fancy glass chandeliers.

But what if her editor is wrong and their promise of true amore is for real? Will Kirsty be able to resist the kind of moonlit temptations she's been dreaming of for years, or is her relationship with Joe going, going, gondola?

If you think Casanova was a bad boy, just wait until you see what Cupid has in store for Kirsty...