WOMEN, WORK & the ART of SAVOIR FAIRE

Mireille Guiliano

Simon & Schuster

Hardback - $40

NZ publication 1 November

Internationally best-selling author Mireille Guiliano was for over 20 years the spokesperson for Champagne Veuve Clicquot and a senior executive at LVMH as well as CEO of Clicquot, Inc., the US firm she helped found in 1984.

She is the author of French Women Don't Get Fat (Knopf 2005), and French Women for All Seasons (Knopf 2006). She currently resides in Manhattan with her husband, Edward, president and CEO of New York Institute of Technology, and makes frequent trips to their homes in Paris and Provence for business and pleasure.

You can visit her online at - http://www.mireilleguiliano.com/

In her new book, Mireille draws on her own experiences at the forefront of women in business to offer lessons, stories, helpful hints -- and even recipes! -- that can make the working world a happier and more satisfying part of a well-balanced life.

She covers a wide range of topics including identifying your own passions and talents; being a better communicator; becoming your own brand; recognizing the difference between leadership and management; balancing work and life; understanding the differences between men and women in the workplace; and eating for business and pleasure.

She shares her thoughts on everything from aceing a job interview to surviving the indignities of a long business trip to hosting a business dinner in a restaurant. She segues easily from the small details ("Should I go to the table if I arrive at the restaurant before my host?") to the big picture ("What do I want to do with the rest of my life?") and makes her readers feel like they are her trusted, longstanding confidantes.

It wll be interesting to see whether or not she has produced another best-seller having ventured a fair way away from the subject matter of her two previous titles.

NZ publication date 1 November.