[Calypso Chronicles 02] • Stealing Princes

“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 this boarding school….Plenty of laugh-out-loud moments” – VOYA