BOOK NEWS: Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries

There's been some great news today for fans of Bridget Jones! Helen Fielding's much-loved heroine will be returning in October in Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries. The book is based on the original columns published in The Independent newspaper, and follow Bridget on her journey into motherhood.

The book will be released in October - one month after the Bridget Jones's Baby movie hits the screens. If you're not familiar with Bridget's next on-screen adventures, here's the synopsis from the official movie site:

Oscar® winners Renée Zellweger and Colin Firth are joined by Patrick Dempsey for the next chapter of the world’s favorite singleton in Bridget Jones’s Baby. Directed by Sharon Maguire (Bridget Jones’s Diary), the new film in the beloved comedy series based on creator Helen Fielding’s heroine finds Bridget unexpectedly expecting.

After breaking up with Mark Darcy (Firth), Bridget Jones’s (Zellweger) “happily ever after” hasn’t quite gone according to plan. Fortysomething and single again, she decides to focus on her job as top news producer and surround herself with old friends and new. For once, Bridget has everything completely under control. What could possibly go wrong?

Then her love life takes a turn and Bridget meets a dashing American named Jack (Dempsey), the suitor who is everything Mr. Darcy is not. In an unlikely twist she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch…she can only be fifty percent sure of the identity of her baby’s father.

The much-anticipated third installment of the Bridget Jones franchise welcomes fellow Academy Award® winner Emma Thompson to the cast. Longtime collaborators Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title Films produce alongside Debra Hayward. Universal Pictures will distribute Bridget Jones’s Baby in North America and select international territories.

GIVEAWAY: Win a copy of Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy by Helen Fielding

Last week we posted about Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, the latest book about Helen Fielding's much-loved heroine. The novel is now available in paperback, and to celebrate we have one copy to give away.

To win, simply send an email with 'Bridget Jones' as the subject header, by Sunday 29th June. Good luck!

What do you do when a girlfriend's 60th birthday party is the same day as your boyfriend's 30th? Is it morally wrong to have a blow-dry when one of your children has head lice? Is technology now the fifth element? Or is that wood? Is sleeping with someone after 2 dates and 6 weeks of texting the same as getting married after 2 meetings and 6 months of letter writing in Jane Austen's day? Pondering these, and other modern dilemmas, Bridget Jones stumbles through the challenges of single-motherhood, tweeting, texting and redisovering her sexuality in what some people rudely and outdatedly call 'middle age'. The long-awaited return of a much-loved character, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is timely, tender, touching, witty, wise and bloody hilarious.

NEW RELEASE: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy released in paperback

Helen Fielding's famous heroine Bridget Jones returned last year, though this time as a fifty-something widow, thus causing mass fan upset at the death of Mark Darcy (hmph!). Still, the latest instalment of Bridget's hilarious diaries proved to be a great read, and tomorrow, Mad About the Boy will be released in paperback.

What do you do when a girlfriend's 60th birthday party is the same day as your boyfriend's 30th? Is it morally wrong to have a blow-dry when one of your children has head lice? Is technology now the fifth element? Or is that wood? Is sleeping with someone after 2 dates and 6 weeks of texting the same as getting married after 2 meetings and 6 months of letter writing in Jane Austen's day? Pondering these, and other modern dilemmas, Bridget Jones stumbles through the challenges of single-motherhood, tweeting, texting and redisovering her sexuality in what some people rudely and outdatedly call 'middle age'. The long-awaited return of a much-loved character, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is timely, tender, touching, witty, wise and bloody hilarious.