The Calypso Chronicles Series

DUELLING PRINCES BY TYNE O'CONNELL If you love Malory Towers you will love St Augustine's even more! Tyne O’Connell is the Enid Blyton of our day, with her boarding school tales of St Augustine's, set right by Eton college & Windsor Castle, & for a dash of royal glamour, there is the very real possibility that you might be rooming with a princess or better still pulling A Prince! At St Augustine's & nearby Eton College, attended by the Royal Princes, O’Connell gives teenagers everywhere the chance to experience the centuries old traditions of English Boarding Schools, with their midnight feasts, dorm raids & illicit trysts with boys along the bluebell pathways of ancient Puller's Woods. Best of all, readers get to experience this uniquely exclusive world of royals & privilege from someone whose lived it through her own & her three children's boarding school adventures. The St Augustine's boarding school series are must read classics for all ages. After all the boarding school action the series continues with the same characters at Oxford, London & into the Royal Castles where HRH Freds FAMED house parties offer a cheeky peak of the royals & friends at play. Calypso is an ordinary American teen, plunged into the extraordinary world of the ancient British Boarding School system with all its mad traditions & customs, surrounded by the daughters of international royalty & rock-stars. With the national fencing trials coming up, balancing school, friendships, and a royal romance is a lot harder than she imagined. Something will have to give, but what or whom will it be? Picking up where Stealing Princes left off, this funny, fast-paced third book chronicling the life and times of Calypso Kelly will not disappoint. When her LA parents arrive in London causing mayhem, Calypso finds that having her prince, winning her bouts, evading the British tabloid press and staying on the right side of the Horrible Hon,’s Honey & Poppy O’Hare while convincing her parents to start acting like adults may be more than any girl can handle. Just as well that her fabulous toff friends & the Nuns are on side to help Calypso with the chaos & the fun! “Funny exposé of It-girlschool life.” ELLE GIRL UK “A deliciously naughty insider’s guide to sensational secret life of Britain & Europe’s royal teens from the midnight feasts, incredibly close friendships & romances to the tabloid escapades and code language - thank goodness there is a dictionary of posh teen slang included.” BOOK CHIT CHAT “A right royal read” THE MAYFAIR TIMES Set in a fictional Eton College where Princes William and Harry attended & the nearby St Mary’s Ascot school attended by Princess Caroline of Monaco and which the authors daughter attended, The Pulling Princes series are like being let in on the sensational secret life of Britain's aristocratic and toff teens. Although entirely fictional, the books accurate portrayal of the hitherto closed world of Royal teens, created feverish speculation and comparisons to actual royals and Aristocratic teens – specifically Prince William and Prince Harry – were inevitable. After a heated bidding war, Bloomsbury won the USA rights to the series at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2004. They have now been re-released in Kindle format. Dating the second in line to the throne, Prince Freddie has made Year Eleven at St. Augustine’s the best year at St Augustine’s so far for American Calypso Kelly. Together with best friends Star and Georgina, and new chums Portia and Indie, LA-born Calypso at last seems to fit into the exclusive all girls Boarding school near Windsor Castle. “Budding Anglophiles... will soak up the flood of upper-class British culture in this book. Fans of Cecily von Ziegesar’s “Gossip Girl” series and Zoey Dean’s “A-List” series (both Little, Brown) should enjoy it”.– WASHINGTON COUNTY COOPERATIVE LIBRARY SERVICES

"Funny exposé of It-girlschool life.” ELLE GIRL UK “A right royal read” THE MAYFAIR TIMES UK “It is sure to have fans of the previous novels rolling on the floor laughing their royal crowns off.” SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, USA If you love Malory Towers you will love St Augustine's even more! Tyne O’Connell is the Enid Blyton of our day, with her boarding school tales of St Augustine's, set right by Eton college & Windsor Castle, & for a dash of royal glamour, there is the very real possibility that you might be rooming with a princess or better still pulling A Prince! At St Augustine's & nearby Eton College, attended by the Royal Princes, O’Connell gives teenagers everywhere the chance to experience the centuries old traditions of English Boarding Schools, with their midnight feasts, dorm raids & illicit trysts with boys along the bluebell pathways of ancient Puller's Woods. Best of all, readers get to experience this uniquely exclusive world of royals & privilege from someone whose lived it through her own & her three children's boarding school adventures. The St Augustine's boarding school series are must read classics for all ages. After all the boarding school action the series continues with the same characters at Oxford, London & into the Royal Castles where HRH Freds FAMED house parties offer a cheeky peak of the royals & friends at play. Calypso is an ordinary American teen, plunged into the extraordinary world of the ancient British Boarding School system with all its mad traditions & customs, surrounded by the daughters of international royalty & rock-stars. Based on the author’s own children’s antics at boarding school, these books are like being let in on the sensational secret life of Britain’s teen aristocracy. In this bonkers world, where everyone’s titled, entitled or both - dorm raids, midnight feasts, illicit dashes to London’s hottest nightclubs on the midnight train & moonlit picnics in the infamous Pullers Woods that separates the two ancient schools, the stakes are high! While her friends spend their time posting YouTube clips & manipulating the media, Calypso has won the G.B. National Fencing trails & managed to pull HRH Prince Freds - floppy-haired heir to the throne. So when Freds does the unthinkable & breaks up with Calypso, breaking the ancient lore that forbids any St Augustine’s girl from ever being dumped, it sets in motion a school-wide scheme for a Royal Counter Dump. Can Calypso win Freddie back? And if she can, will she be able to dump him? An American Library Association QUICK PICK for Young Adults

“It is sure to have fans of O’Connell’s previous novels rolling on the floor laughing their royal crowns off.” SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, USA “A Right Royal Read!” MAYFAIR TIMES UK “Funny exposé of It-girl school life.” ELLE GIRL UK If you love Malory Towers you will love St Augustine's even more! Tyne O’Connell is the Enid Blyton of our day with her boarding school tales of St Augustine's, set right by Eton college & Windsor castle, & for a dash of royal glamour, there is the very real possibility that you might be rooming with a princess or better still pulling A Prince! At St Augustine's & nearby Eton College, attended by the Royal Princes, O’Connell gives teenagers everywhere the chance to experience the centuries old traditions of English Boarding Schools, with their midnight feasts, dorm raids & illicit trysts with boys along the bluebell pathways of ancient Puller's Woods. Best of all, readers get to experience this uniquely exclusive world of royals & privilege from someone whose lived it through her own & her three children's boarding school adventures. The St Augustine's boarding school series are must read classics for all ages. After all the boarding school action the series continues with the same characters at Oxford, London & into the Royal Castles where HRH Freds FAMED house parties offer a cheeky peak of the royals & friends at play. STEALING PRINCES is set in a exclusive all girl’s boarding school near Windsor Castle close by is the fictionalised Eton College - as attended by Princes William & Harry - Pulling Princes is based on the author’s own children’s antics at boarding school - "A deliciously naughty insider’s guide to the midnight feasts, close friendships & romances of royal teenagers.” Book ChitChats Calypso is an ordinary American teen, plunged into the extraordinary world of the ancient British Boarding School system with all its mad traditions & customs, surrounded by the daughters of international royalty & rock-stars. But after three years of enduring the Terrible Toffs & Horrible Hon.s treating her like The American Freak, Calypso Kelly is determined to beat them at their own game by tricking them into believing she’s dating a hot Hollywood boy. She may be able to rinse the Eades boys at sabre & dazzle the girls with a poster of her “fake Hollywood boyfriend” - but with the paparazzi lurking behind every hedge, her phone confiscated & the not-so-Honourable Honey O’Hare plotting against her, can Calypso manage to pull it off AND pull the Prince? “Funny exposé of It-girl school life.” ELLE GIRL UK “Budding Anglophiles ....will soak up the flood of upper-class British culture in this book.” WASHINGTON COUNTY LIBRARY “A Right Royal Read!” MAYFAIR TIMES “Bridget Jones for the early teen set.”- WASHINGTON POST USA "Give this to fans of Princess Mia and Georgia Nicholson"BOOKLIST, USA Its a new term at St Augustine’s. Calypso, exhausted from her from her flight from LA, lugs her trunks up the ancient oak staircase, unaided by the bustling valets, maids, parents, man-servants & body-guards of the other girls. Her heart sinks when she discovers she’s roomed with psycho toff, The Hon. Honey O’Hare & the beautiful & aloof Lady Portia Herrington-Briggs. On top of that, her innocent txt-flirtations with the heir-to-the-throne HRH Prince Freds & the Eades Fencing captain, Billy are getting well...complicated to say the least. Which boy will she choose & is the choice even her’s to make? Is Lady Portia Herrington-Briggs txt-ing with Freds? In a term of moon-lit picnics, Body Shop bottles concealing Vodka drinking, texting-torture & romantic muddles over whose pulling whom, all anyone really cares about is an invite to the Royal Euro Ball. But Calypso get her Cinderella-perfect ending, or will Honey finally manage to turn her into a frog? “There is never a dull moment in thi

Grab your tiara & valet for a Riotous Royal Romance behind the walls of Britain’s most Exclusive Boarding Schools. A tale of Toff-Teens & their Outrageous-Aristo-Antics. “Funny exposé of It-girl school life.” ELLE GIRL UK “If you have ever wondered what really goes on behind the locked gates of the ancient British Boarding Schools, this series holds the key.” @BookChitChat If you love Malory Towers you will love St Augustine's even more! Tyne O’Connell is the Enid Blyton of our day with her boarding school tales of St Augustine's, set right by Eton college & Windsor castle, & for a dash of royal glamour, there is the very real possibility that you might be rooming with a princess or better still pulling A Prince! At St Augustines & nearby Eton College, attended by the Royal Princes, O’Connell gives teenagers everywhere the chance to experience the centuries old traditions of English Boarding Schools, with their midnight feasts, dorm raids & illicit trysts with boys along the bluebell pathways of ancient Puller's Woods. Best of all, readers get to experience this uniquely exclusive world of royals & privilege from someone whose lived it through her own & her three children's boarding school adventures. The St Augustine's boarding school series are must read classics for all ages. After all the boarding school action the series continues with the same characters at Oxford, London & into the Royal Castles where HRH Freds FAMED house parties offer a cheeky peak of the royals & friends at play. PULLING PRINCES is set in a exclusive all girl’s boarding school near Windsor Castle close by is the fictionalised Eton College - as attended by Princes William & Harry - Pulling Princes is based on the author’s own children’s antics at boarding school - "A deliciously naughty insider’s guide to the midnight feasts, close friendships & romances of royal teenagers.” Book ChitChats Calypso is an ordinary American teen, plunged into the extraordinary world of the ancient British Boarding School system with all its mad traditions & customs, surrounded by the daughters of international royalty & rock-stars. But after three years of enduring the Terrible Toffs & Horrible Hon.s treating her like The American Freak, Calypso Kelly is determined to beat them at their own game by tricking them into believing she’s dating a hot Hollywood boy. She may be able to rinse the Eades boys at sabre & dazzle the girls with a poster of her “fake Hollywood boyfriend” - but with the paparazzi lurking behind every hedge, her phone confiscated & the not-so-Honourable Honey O’Hare plotting against her, can Calypso manage to pull it off AND pull the Prince? “Funny exposé of It-girl school life.” ELLE GIRL UK “Budding Anglophiles ....will soak up the flood of upper-class British culture in this book.” WASHINGTON COUNTY LIBRARY “A Right Royal Read!” MAYFAIR TIMES “Bridget Jones for the early teen set.”- WASHINGTON POST USA "Give this to fans of Princess Mia and Georgia Nicholson as well as to readers of O’Connell’s previous Pulling Princes." BOOKLIST, USA "It is sure to have fans of the previous novels rolling on the floor laughing their royal crowns off." SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, USA “Outrageously funny and a serious contender for the teen chick-lit throne.” — THE BOOKSELLER on Pulling Princes.