"Corinne Sweet is a highly professional author - she writes well, delivers on time and is constantly coming up with new ideas. A real live wire and a lovely person to boot".  Jane Graham Maw, Literary Agent, Graham Maw Christie "Thank you so much, Corinne.  You have written our lives, the true lives, the real lives we lived:    It is my life, the feeling of fear.  How did you know the deep bits about what happened, as I don't think I disclosed them? It was so difficult for me to say in words - the shame of it - but you have written my life, the truth, the facts.  You have done more for me - and my family - than you will ever realise.  You released the heavy, wicked silence from our heads.  Thank you". Harmony Brookes, Nowhere to Belong

Author – Non-Fiction

Currently writing Change Your Life with CBT:  Using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to Make Your Whole Life Better for Pearsons (due out Autumn 2010).

Agents:

(non-fiction) Jane Graham Maw of Grahammawchristie Literary Agency
(fiction) Carole Blake of Blakefriedmann Literary Agency.

Previously written several bestselling self-help psychology books, sold worldwide and translated into German, Danish, Armenian, Spanish, including:

	How To Say No:  Kick the Disease to Please (Hodder, 2002,Help Yourself Series) "Pleasing others and always saying 'yes' is a habit that leaves us feeling resentful towards ourselves and others as well as over-burdened and emotionally cluttered.  If you find it hard to say 'no' or articulate what you really want to say, this book is for you.  It explains, with case examples, why women especially feel obliged to making others happy, and describes how to overcome this by getting rid of guilt, being more assertive and restoring balance and autonomy".
	Birth Begins at Forty: Challenging the Myths of Late Motherhood (Hodder, 2001) "Increasing numbers of women are giving birth in their forties, even fifties, or later.  For some it will be their first baby.  What was unusual fifteen years ago, is now becoming quite common, although seen as controversial.  Yet little has been written about this dramatic social shift.  This book tells all and is the result of honest, revealing, heart-rending, interviews.  It includes how women made the decision to have a baby late, the risks with late motherhood, combatting age prejudice, having another baby, getting life back on track and fathers over forty."
	Stop Fighting About Money:  How money can make or break your relationship (Hodder,2000, Help Yourself  Series) "Money is the number one argument tripper for couples, yet it's also the last big taboo.  This book examines the emotional meaning of money and how it can become a battleground for couples.  Yet, with insight and understanding couples can create their own money culture, which works for them.  They have to take account of their 'emotional money baggage' and 'money patterns' and make money management a positive experience, rather than a negative, stressful one."
	Overcoming Addiction: Positive steps for breaking free of addiction and building self-esteem (Piatkus, 1993) "Most of us are addicted to something - cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, or junk food, chocolate, shopping, work - even regularly falling in love or having sex.  This book looks at why you get addicted, and helps you overcome your addictions.  It helps you learn to understand and love yourself.  The book looks at how addictions start, how we get 'hooked', then moves to facing the feelings underlying the addictions.  It's crucial to assess your needs and problems in order to overcome addictions.  The book is based on practical research with clients, and the author's own experience.  It has strategies for giving up, staying off and enjoying life to the full."
	Parents From Hell:  How to handle problem parents (1990, out of print)
	‘Pornography and Addiction: A political issue (in Pornography: Women, Violence and Civil Liberties, Ed. C.Itzin (OUP, 1992)
	Maternity Rights at Work’; ‘Women Won’t Benefit: The Impact of the Social Security Act on Women’s Rights’ (NCCL, 1989)

Ghostwriter – of three bestselling Biographies

Currently working on a celebrity biography...due out 2010/11.

	Nowhere to Belong: Punished for the colour of her skin by Harmony Brookes (Hodder, 2009)  "Enslaved by their white foster family, the only love and affection Harmony and her two sisters experienced came from each other.  When Harmony attempted to get help nobody believed her...until it was too late.  The three little girls were emotionally shattered by the abuse and only Harmony survived to tell this tragic tale.  She knew she had to escape or die.  This is an incredibly moving story of a little girl betrayed by the people supposed to protect her, and how she finally found somewhere to belong."
	Nobody Heard Me Cry: An Irish boy sold on the streets, a whole life shattered  by John Devane (Hodder 2008) "A boy growing up in 1960's Limerick in poverty and neglect.  Fatherless, with his family in chaos, he fell prey to the predatory clutches of a neighbour, setting off a cycle of abuse that lasted for years.  Then he was taken to the docks and sold as a sexual plaything.  He spent years as a child prostitute and no one was there to hear his cries for help.  The legacy of abuse led to alcoholism and despair.  Against all the odds, John put himself through college and became a lawyer, defending those the system spits out.  However, his past caught up with him and one day a man arrived, desperate for representation and failed to recognise John, the boy he'd once abused.  Now John had a terrible choice to make..."
	Deliver Me From Evil :  A sadistic foster mother, a childhood torn apart by Alloma Gilbert (Pan MacMillan, 2008) "When foster-mother Eunice Spry was sentenced to fourteen years in prison for abusing the children in her care, the details of her sadistic cruelty were so sickening they shocked the country.  Alloma, one of her victims, was sent to live with Spry at six and was enslaved for eleven brutal years.  Spry used her own twisted religious beliefs as an excuse for punishing her helpless foster children.  She removed their identities, and imprisoned them in a remote farmhouse, starved, tortured and beat them, and treated them worse than animals.  Alloma only escaped at seventeen, but, alone and unworldly fell prey to abusive men.  It was the birth of her own baby that saved her, and finally taught her what love is."

   
‘Agony Aunt’

• Regular 'Big Brother psychologist' columnist for Press Association internet site, and other print media.
• Write ‘expert’ occasional columns for newspapers such as The Sun, The Mirror, The Express,  often quoted in Glamour.
• Written regular columns in Top Sante, Home and Life, Woman, Scottish Daily Record.
• 'Agony aunt' for Totally Tracy Beaker.
  
• Columnist for New Woman (Australia); Company.
  

Journalist 

Writing regular features, comments, obituaries, in...

• NEWSPAPERS  – The Independent, The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, The Observer, The Sunday Times, The Daily Express, The Sunday Express, The Mirror, The Sunday Mirror, The Sun, The Scottish Daily Herald, The Daily Record, Evening Standard.

• MAGAZINES – Red, Glamour, Good Housekeeping, Top Sante, Eve, Woman, Woman’s Own, SHE, Real, Cosmopolitan, New Woman, GQ, FHM, Couples, Options, Company, Woman’s Journal, Bella, Best, Prima, Wedding and Home, Woman’s Realm, The Therapist, Spare Rib, Everywoman, Achilles Heel.

• UNICEF roving reporter in the Caribbean and Ethiopia (with Des'Ree).

• Member of Writer’s Guild of Great Britain, Women in Journalism, PEN, The Groucho Club, The Stone Club, Women in Film and TV, The National Union of Journalists.