'Sane and sensible - and very funny.' Marina O'Loughlin

Ever started a new diet and found yourself reaching for the wine and chocolate within a week? Well now you can! Jane Wenham-Jones, best-selling author and columnist, offers 100 tips on slimming down without sacrifice.

Quirky but useful, fun but factual, Jane's approach is a unique mixture of everyday science, the right mental attitude, and common-sense strategies, designed to fit in with your busy life. With advice on "party weeks", dressing to hide the pounds, and how to lose weight fast when a big date looms, Jane offers tactics that work where most diets fail. From eating a chilli a day to speed up your metabolism, to doing quick bursts of exercise with rapid results, to simply thinking yourself skinnier, these tried-and-tested methods will see you leaner and fitter - while allowing for a daily fix of the foods you love.

Jane Wenham-Jones is a well-known author and journalist who regularly appears on radio and TV. She has written for a wide variety of magazines and newspapers, is a regular columnist for Woman's Weekly and the agony aunt for Writing Magazine.

She has published six novels: Raising The Roof, Perfect Alibis, One Glass Is Never Enough, Prime Time, Mum in the Middle and The Big Five O, as well as three non-fiction books - Wannabe a Writer? and Wannabe a Writer We've Heard Of? plus a humorous yet useful diet book, written in the style of the Wannabe guides - 100 Ways to Fight the Flab and Still Have Wine and Chocolate.

Jane lives with her family in Broadstairs, Kent, where three of her novels are set. For more info see www.janewenham-jones.com and www.wannabeawriter.com