Helen Fielding was born in Yorkshire and now lives and works in London. Bridget Jones's Diary was her second novel following the publication of Cause Celeb in 1994. Fielding worked for the BBC for several years where she produced documentaries in Africa for Comic Relief. Cause Celeb combines the comic and the tragic, examining the uneasy relationship between starving people in Africa and celebrities in the West.
Genres: Romance
Series
Bridget Jones
1. Bridget Jones's Diary (1996)
2. The Edge of Reason (1999)
3. Mad About the Boy (2013)
4. Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)
1. Bridget Jones's Diary (1996)
2. The Edge of Reason (1999)
3. Mad About the Boy (2013)
4. Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)
Novels
Collections
Word Play (2007)
Ox-Tales:Air (2009) (with Diran Adebayo, Beryl Bainbridge, A L Kennedy, Alexander McCall Smith, D B C Pierre, Vikram Seth, Kamila Shamsie, Helen Simpson and Louise Welsh)
Ox-Tales:Air (2009) (with Diran Adebayo, Beryl Bainbridge, A L Kennedy, Alexander McCall Smith, D B C Pierre, Vikram Seth, Kamila Shamsie, Helen Simpson and Louise Welsh)
Non fiction
Awards
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Helen Fielding recommends

Maneater (2003)
Gigi Levangie
"This book has changed my life - I now understand the importance of only drinking red drinks."

The Best Awful (2004)
(Suzanne Vale, book 2)
Carrie Fisher
"Hilarious and original...funny, perceptive, engaging, touching...and honest (though of course it's all entirely fictional."

So 5 Minutes Ago (2004)
Hilary de Vries
"A delicious Hollywood girls' book written with an insider's wit. I gobbled it up gleefully, like chocolate."

How To Be Famous (2018)
Caitlin Moran
"Who better than Caitlin Moran to bring fame down to earth with a bump?"
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