Praise for Breaking the Rules: 'It's nail-biting stuff! it sweeps you upand puts you into a world of big houses, luxury yachts, international capitals and Parisian catwalks' Express 'Thirty years after A Woman of Substance, BTB hasn't lost her touch' Woman & Home Praise for Barbara Taylor Bradford: 'Queen of the genre' Sunday Times 'Few novelists are as consummate as Barbara Taylor Bradford at keeping the reader turning the page. She is one of the world's best at spinning yarns' Guardian 'Memorable and moving!a sure-fire winner' Express

Barbara Taylor Bradford was born and raised in England. She started her writing career on the Yorkshire Evening Post and later worked as a journalist in London. Her first novel, A Woman of Substance, became an enduring bestseller and was followed by twenty-five others, including the bestselling Harte series. Barbara's books have sold more than eighty-two million copies worldwide in more than ninety countries and forty languages, and ten mini-series and television movies have been made of her books. In October of 2007, Barbara was appointed an OBE by the Queen for her services to literature. She lives in New York City with her husband, television producer Robert Bradford. Playing the Game is her twenty-sixth novel.