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 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. "Funny expose 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 "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"