Diary of a Crush Books In Order
- French Kiss (2004)
- Kiss and Make Up (2004)
- Sealed with a Kiss (2004)
Fashionistas Books In Order
- Laura (2007)
- Hadley (2007)
- Irina (2008)
- Candy (2008)
Novels
- Love Money (1998)
- Guitar Girl (2003)
- Pretty Things (2005)
- Let’s Get Lost (2006)
- Unsticky (2009)
- Nobody’s Girl (2010)
- You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me (2011)
- Nine Uses For An Ex Boyfriend (2012)
- Adorkable (2012)
- It Felt Like a Kiss (2014)
- The Worst Girlfriend in the World (2014)
- After the Last Dance (2015)
- London Belongs to Us (2016)
- The House of Secrets (2017)
- The Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp (2018)
- Rescue Me (2021)
- London, With Love (2022)
Non fiction
- Girl.Net (2001)
Diary of a Crush Book Covers
Fashionistas Book Covers
Novels Book Covers
Non fiction Book Covers
Sarra Manning Books Overview
French Kiss
When Edie and Dylan first see each other in photography class, an instant attraction draws them together. But true love never does run smoothly the two spar as much as they can t keep their hands off each other. Then comes the college trip to Paris: Edie’s willpower will be tested to the limit! In between furious arguments and trips to the Louvre, the two share some passionate moments but will it last?
Kiss and Make Up
It’s sizzling summertime, and Edie can t wait for the partying to start. Trying to forget about the dastardly Dylan, Edie s taking her new squeeze Carter to the Glastonbury music festival to have some fun. But guess who s there already, looking totally gorgeous? That s right…
Sealed with a Kiss
Edie and Dylan are finally a real couple, and to celebrate they re off on an amazing road trip across America. But nine weeks on the road in a foreign country is a long time and a real test of their feelings for each other. Will it bring them even closer together, or break them apart forever?
Laura
Beating 12,000 other girls to become the newest model on Fierce’s books is Laura‘s dream come true. But she knew it was bound to happen sooner or later. She’s gorgeous everyone thinks so. But when the thrill of winning fades, Laura is alone in London, in a shoebox bedroom with three fame hungry flatmates. Being beautiful isn’t enough now…
not when her booker thinks she’s way too fat, and her devoted boyfriend isn’t the rock she thought he was. Laura‘s got to make some difficult decisions. And time is running out…
Hadley
Hadley Harlow was once the world’s biggest child star. Now she’s strictly C list and launching herself on the London celebrity circuit to revive her flagging career. Sure, Hadley‘s high maintenance but she’s also a tough cookie who isn’t going to let anything stand in her way whether it’s pesky agents, jealous co stars or three diva like flatmates. Not to mention the disapproval of Reed, hip film director and notorious modeliser. Like she cares what he thinks! But even when you’re on the bottom rungs of the showbiz ladder, you can still have a long way to fall. Learning to live in the real world is going to be Hadley‘s toughest role yet…
Irina
Irina is shoplifting in a designer store in Moscow when she is spotted by model agency scouts and just like that, she leaves behind a life of survival and scavenging and heads straight for the cover of Italian Vogue. It’s all one big weird dream to Irina at first. She’s never been pretty, her eyes are too big and her nose is covered in unfashionable freckles. But hey, if some idiot wants to pay her GBP5000 a day for striking some poses, she’ll do it. In fact, when Irina arrives in London and meets her three new flatmates, she stops being ambivalent and starts being hungry, and not only for yummy Western food like Four Cheese Pizza. Irina is hungry for supermodel status. She’s going to be the most sought after model that Fierce have ever had on their books, and nothing’s going to get in her way. Not even gorgeous Brazilian Photographer’s assistant Javier, who is the first boy to ever treat her like she is worth something. You can’t afford to lose your heart in this business, it makes you soft. And soft is something Irina has spent a long time training herself not to be…
Candy
Candy Careless is the daughter of punk royalty and the acid tongued star of the reality show that’s boosted her eccentric family’s flagging fortunes. When Candy gets her heart broken she heads for London to escape the pressure of cameras in her face 24/7 and break into the world of fashion. Her bark and her bite alienate everyone, from her three flat mates to the intriguing Alfie, but whatever. Not her problem. But when dark secrets threaten to destroy everything Candy‘s worked for, she begins to realise that she’s not really the sassy girl she plays on TV.
Guitar Girl
Seventeen year old Molly Montgomery never planned on becoming famous. Molly’s band, The Hormones, was just supposed to be about mucking around with her best mates, Jane and Tara, and having fun. But when the deliciously dangerous Dean and his friend T join the band, things start happening fast. Soon The Hormones are front page news, and their debut album is rocketing up the charts. Molly is the force behind the band, but the hazards of fame, first love, screaming fans, and sleazy managers are forcing the newly crowned teen queen of grrl angst close to the edge. Fame never comes for free, and Molly’s about to find out what it costs.
Pretty Things
Brie is in love with Lanc me Juicy Tubes, Louis Vuitton accessories, and her gay best friend Charlie, who is in love with 1960s pop art, 1980s teen movies, and serial heartbreaker Walker, who has ever only been in love with his VW Bug, until he meets Daisy…
who is too busy hating everyone to know what love is. Set in London, this girl loves boy loves boy lovesgirl romp is set against a theatrical production of The Taming of the Shrew, and features enough on and off stage drama to satisfy teens looking for a beach read or a read all year round.
Let’s Get Lost
A compelling YA novel from the best selling author of Guitar Girl!
Isabel is the girl who rules the school with an iron fist and a gang of minions who do her bidding. Her friends are scared of her, her teachers can t get through to her, and that’s just the way she likes it. With her razor sharp edges and tall walls, nothing gets to Isabel and no one, but no one, is ever going to discover her dark, sad secrets. Then she meets Smith. And Isabel learns that sometimes when all the expectations and pressures are too much, you just need someone to help you get lost.
Unsticky
Product Description High fashion, high art, high expectations this is Pretty Woman for the twenty first century Money makes the world go round that’s what twenty something Grace Reeves is learning. Stuck in a grind where everyones ahead apart from her, shes partied out, disillusioned, and massively in debt. If shes dumped by another rock band wannabe, squashed by anyone else at her cut throat fashion job, or chased by any more bailiffs, Grace suspects shell fall apart…
So when older, sexy and above all, wealthy art dealer Vaughn appears, she’s intrigued against her will. Could she handle being a sugar daddys arm candy? Soon Grace is thrown into a world of money and privilege, at Vaughns beck and call in return for thousands of pounds in luxurious gifts, priceless clothes and cash. Shes out of her depth. Where’s the line between acting the trophy girlfriend, and selling yourself for money? And, more importantly: whatever happened to love?
Nobody’s Girl
Bea thinks she’s the most boring seventeen year old in the world. She’s not pretty or popular or funny, unlike her mother who had Bea when she was 17. The only glamorous thing about Bea is the French father who left before she was born and lives in Paris. She yearns for la vie Parisienne every moment of her dull existence. So when Ruby Davies, the leader of her school’s most elite clique picks Bea as her new best friend and asks her to go on holiday with them, she’s wary but delighted. If nothing else it’s two weeks away from her over protective mother. But when the gang arrive in Spain, Bea is crushed to realise that Ruby and her posse have simply been using her. Bea wreaks vengeance on her so called friends, and plans to decamp to Paris to find her father. But when she falls asleep on the train and wakes up in Bilbao, she meets a group of American students who are backpacking around Europe and bonds with them straight away, especially the gorgeous Toph who helps heals Bea’s hurting heart. Though Bea has a shock in store when they finally get to Paris. The ‘City of Lovers’ really works it magic on Bea and Toph who spend a week wandering the sun dappled streets of Paris, talking, holding hands and falling in love. When it comes time to go home to confront her Mum about her mysterious father, the new version of Bea is determined that she’ll never go back to her old, boring way of life she’s no longer Nobody’s Girl; she belongs to herself and to Toph…
But with an ocean between them, will he wait for her?
Related Authors