Lulu Baker Series Information
The Truth Cookie
A modern day Cinderella meets Absolutely Fabulous! Lulu's dopey dad is in trouble. He is about to marry Varaminta le Bone, ex-super model, author of How to be Thin Like Me and mother of the odious Torquil.
Lulu, unlike her father, knows that Varaminta is far from sugar-sweet. She is determined to save him, but how? Lulu has no idea...until, on her birthday, she stumbles into an odd little bookshop and Ambrosia May's cookbook falls at her feet.
Packed with magical recipes, including one for Truth Cookies, it seems the only way to get Varaminta and Torquil to reveal their true colours. But that's only if Lulu can only find the strange ingredients (three sun beans? camel butter?) and persuade the ever-dieting Varaminta that these cookies are not to be missed!
Cupid Cakes
In the second title of the "Lulu Baker" trilogy, Lulu returns to cook up a new batch of cakes as she tries desperately to keep her magical cookbook away from the evil Varaminta le Bone. But when her dad starts to act strangely and Torquil, Varaminta's awful son, resumes his unrelenting taunts, Lulu begins to wonder...Has she gone too far this time? With a little help from best friend Frenchy and the mysterious Cassandra, Lulu's magical mayhem continues, making this delightful story as entertaining (and as mouth-watering) as its prequel, "The Truth Cookie".
Chocolate Wishes
One bite and you're smitten! Lulu Baker and her magical cookbook are back! But so, unfortunately, is the dreaded Varaminta le Bone. And this time she's managed to get her hands on Lulu's precious recipe book. In the final title of the "Lulu Baker" trilogy, Lulu must once again use all her wiles to scupper the evil plans of Varaminta and her son, the dastardly Torquil. But will she get a happy ending of her own? Just as Fiona Dunbar delighted us with the delectable "Truth Cookie" and "Cupid Cakes", the equally delicious "Chocolate Wishes" offers up its own special blend of magic, mystery and mouth-watering goodies.
hey Fiona i read the truth cookie and i think its fab i really like it.i want to read the other two so am waiting to get them and am sure they are great too…
omg i am reading cupid cakes it is soooooooooooo good i got two books chocolate wishes and cupid cakes all i need for the full collection is the truth cookie omg O.O
Thank you Mandy! It’s not the right order, but then when you’ve read The Truth Cookie you can read Cupid Cakes and Chocolate Wishes all over again. Happy reading!
whats the setting for the truth cookie please!!
North London! Lulu lives in somewhere a bit like Crouch End, where I live. Cassandra lives in Hackney, and Mr Lunch’s bookshop is based on a shop I used to know in Lamb’s Conduit Street, near Holborn.
Hiya fiona I am a Big fan of your books I slade the best I have all of them and I would like to say please could you put my name in your next kitty slade book I think your amazing and the bests author ever and your next kitty slade book cover please could it be light green thank you I hope you folow my request from leah
Hi Fiona, I got all 3 Lulu Baker books from a charity shop after I been to see Santa, and the three books are in the original covers!
Hi Hannah, hey congratulations! I really hope you enjoy them.
Hi fiona Yes I really enjoyed them!
Hey there, Fiona. It’s me (super brainy) again.
I read the Lulu baker trilogy lots of time and I just can’t stop reading them! My fav character is Minty le Bone’s dog, Poochie but I love that barking he does in The Truth Cookie and Chocolate Wishes, like this. “Wow wo! wowowowowow WOW WOW!” And “Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!”
I read these books from my school and I love to become a cook, just like Lulu Baker!!
Thanks! ‘Poochie’ sounds like a deeply unimaginative name, but of course as you know, Varaminta calls it that to rhyme with all her Italian designer clothes. By the way, we never actually learn the gender of this dog: it is just an ‘it’!
Dear Fiona,
I love love LOVE your books! I just finished The Truth Cookie. It was great and I really like the food names for the characters and chapters!!
Thanks Emily! Yes, I had a lot of fun there.
hello fiona its me again
the thing is some times if i read a book i dream up theame parks baced on that book. this time i didnt dream up a theame park but a shop like the one lulu gets the book from. i was reading it and suddenly i thought imagin if you could realy get books like the apple star with cooking ingredeence like ordinary flour but with names from the lulu baker books. my mind runs wild sometimes but i was just saying because i was wondering can you actualy buy cook books like the apple star?
Hi Heidi, No, I’m afraid not! I made it up. But don’t tell anyone
hi fiona
i found cupid cakes in the libary the other day and took it out. it was amasing!!! i loved it. i cant wait to find the others. just one tiny question. in your mind what does cassandra look like because i cant quite figure her out. iv got the others but im not sure about cassandra. iv only seen one of the tv series. its not like the book at all and the characters in my head look sort of different as well. the books way better.
Hi Heidi, ah, it’s true, there isn’t a very full description of her in Cupid Cakes – there’s more in the first book, the Truth Cookie. She is big, black and beautiful, and wears long flowing robes. Have to admit that I cringe now at my clumsy description of her as ‘African-looking’… Yes, the books are VERY different from the TV series! I’m so glad you think they are better; there is definitely much more story there, because the TV show was a sit-com, and therefore functioned in an entirely different way. Thanks for telling me how much you enjoyed the book, and I hope you enjoy the others as much!
hello again
wow i can picture her now thats cool. thanks for telling me.
by the way i love how every chapter is called something foodie. i also love the ingedience names especialy for some reason “dolphin butter”. i dont know why but it just sounds wierd when you say it.
hi fiona im from austria and i love your book cupid cakes some much i havent finished reading it yet and its probably overdue i really like it and the tv series but the book is better it would be nice if you made more because i really like it and you can just imagine it in your can you come down to auss!!!
Hi cat girl! Thank you SO much for saying the book is better than the TV series! As I’ve said elsewhere, the TV show is great in its own way, but you get much more value story-wise from the books. Saw your other message re: Austria/Australia: I will come when my publishers pay me to go! Can’t say when that will be, I’m afraid!
hello mrs dunbar
i was on the kelly mckain website when i found her sugestion for your website. id never heard of lulu baker or any of your books before but im glad i have now. unfortunetaly when i tried to buy one my local whsmiths didnt have it. this is a shame because if i go on auther websites and sites like usborn i see books i realy like the look of but i can never find them in whsmiths. do you know of any bookshops where your books are sold. by the way are you going to write any more lulu baker books?
Hi Heidi, thanks, and I hope you manage to get hold of Lulu one way or another! WHSmith do stock my books, but I think currently only the Kitty Slade ones. You’re better off going to Waterstones or an independent store – or Amazon, of course. Smiths stock a very limited range generally! Good luck.
Hey,
I haven’t read the books yet but i watched the series and I read the first chapter. Can’t wait til my birthday. I ASKED FOR THESE BOOKS!!
PLEASE PLEASE write more
Hi Princy, Well I think you’re in for a surprise…the books are very different from the TV series – in a good way! I hope you enjoy them.
Hi Danel
That is so nice of Kelly! I will have to start sending readers over to her site as well. So I gather from your comment that so far you’ve just read The Truth Cookie; I hope you enjoy books 2 & 3. Lulu has to lose her mum, because this is the whole basis for the big problem in her life: Varaminta. Step-families are a common issue, and I’m reflecting reality. See also my reply to Violet’s message, last message but one!
The reason you have read a lot of books which start out with the loss of one or both parents is that one way or another, parents have to be got out of the way! They have this habit of being grown-ups, and of fighting their kids’ battles for them. Not good from a story-telling perspective.
I’m not sure why you think this means an unhappy ending, though! All three books have an upbeat ending, and none more so that book 3. But you need light and shade: a book in which nothing but good things happen would be a very dull book indeed!
I hope that answers your question. Happy reading!
Hi Miss Dunbar , This webstie was reccomended to me by ure BFF Kelly McKain ( btw her son freddie is sooooo cute)i love the lulu baker trilogy trying to buy cupid cakes and chocolate wishes i love you style of writing. one thing :Why did lulu baker’s mum have to die everyone ‘s mum seems to die in the books i read it would be nice to have a happy ending for once many congrats on the book , Danel
A few months ago, I was at my library (I hadn’t heard of you then, it was all thanks to Kelly McKain!) and I found two books that I liked the sound of. Guess what they were called? ‘The Truth Cookie’, and ‘Silk Sisters: Pink Chameleon’! I got them out and haven’t looked back since. Thanks for being such a fabulously witty writer!
Hi Jemima
Well, it sounds as if I owe Kelly a drink next time I see her! I’m delighted you enjoyed the books so much: ‘witty’ is definitely a description of which I approve! And now that you’ve read the first of each of the trilogies, I hope you go on to enjoy the rest of the Lulu Baker’s and the Silk Sisters’ stories. Maybe you’ll enjoy Kitty Slade too.
I wish there were more books. But either way I still like love them! I read the book unstopping(don’t know if it’s a word but what eva) for hour/s but why’d you have to make Lulu’s mum pass away????? Kinda depressing if you ask me. Varaminta le Bones, a totally WICKED name.Alas,who would call their son Torquil? But Lulu.seriously, kidding,right? ROFL LOL, K? But Cassandra and Aileeen are soooo awesome and nice, I’d call them fairy godmothers, really! So I hope you don’t get offended by my oppinions(spelled right or not)okay?
Hi Violet
Well, the fact that Lulu’s mum is no longer in the land of the living is very integral to the plot. Think about the scene in the bookshop, and the inscription inside the book that falls into Lulu’s hands. Does that not make your spine tingle? It did mine when I wrote it! Also, if she were still alive, how likely is it that Lulu would be living with her dad instead? There would have had to be a big problem with mum, and that simply is not what the book is about!
I’m glad you like Varaminta’s name. As to who would call their son Torquil – well, someone like Varaminta would!
I think of Cassandra as the fairy godmother figure, really; I like Aileen too, but her role is more that of a friend or an aunt.
Thanks for your comments! That is what this place is for: it would be rather boring if it was nothing but, ‘ooh I do love your books’ – nice though that is too!
Hi Hermione,
Thanks so much! I hope you enjoy books 2 & 3 as well. Happy reading!
I think that the truth cookie is such a good book!!! I could not keep my eyes of it.