"SHE IS THE QUEEN BEE INCARNATE!" The Daily Telegraph

"Draped in deep pink and sipping saki in her fashionable London warehouse, the impossibly glamorous O’Connell!" ELLE Magazine inhabits the worlds she writes about: exotic, unconventional, off piste in every way.

As well as a bibliophile, Tyne is a lover of fine frocks & accessories, she designs her own range of clothes, jewellery & crocodile shoes & bags under her label Apis Regina, a range which is exclusive to her. The name Apis Regina came about after Tyne was declared “SHE IS THE QUEEN BEE INCARNATE!" by Cassandra Jardine in a feature article about her in The Telegraph UK.

Tyne writes in bed preferably in hotel room beds, in exotic locations – where the sheets are changed every day.

To date she has twelve published books translated into over a dozen languages. She also writes travel articles.

As a child she kept hens and was in charge of collecting their eggs. She continues to keep hens finding them both inspirational and soothing.

Educated by Catholic nuns in the arts of deportment, elocution and how to seat people at embassy dinners, Tyne left school at 18 & travelled the globe playing poker and falling in love. She lived in Nepal in 1981 with her first husband and conceived her first child there. She also spent time in Burma and Tibet. Throughout her globe trotting she always made a point of visiting English speaking prisoners in local jails. She visited Iraq in 1988 and was kidnapped by PKK.

She studied Gemology while pregnant with her two sons between 1982 & 1984 so she'd always be sure of quality rocks, untainted by immoral mining. This had led to her sourcing and designing her own jewellery.

She lived in Cairo for two years during which time she spent three months living nomadically with Bedouins. Before leaving Cairo she met her second husband.

In 1990, pregnant with her third child, Tyne and her two husbands decided to set up a three parent household. “When I wrote an article for Vogue in 1997 about my ménage à trois lifestyle - sans the ménage so to speak - I had absolutely no idea I would spark a slew of international articles and talk show & radio discussions on post modern marriage and whether it was a good or bad idea to throw the husband out with the marriage. I wasn’t trying to sell my lifestyle as a design for living, it was simply what worked for us."

"You could certainly start a stimulating debate on modern relationships based on Tyne O'Connell." Sunday Independent Ireland.

Tyne’s first book Sex Lies & Litigation was published in 1996 followed by 11 others. She’s also contributed short stories to Girls Night In & Kids Night In to raise money for the charity Warchild.

These days with one son having graduated from Oxford, the other studying animation and her daughter at boarding school Tyne retains a base in Londres but continues to travel.

Tyne's first five books, SEX LIES & LITIGATION , LATEST ACCESSORY, WHAT’S A GIRL TO DO?, MAKING THE A-LIST, & THAT GIRL BOY THING were published by HeadlineUK and translated internationally. In 2004, Tyne made her American debut with THE SEX WAS GREAT BUT… & in 2005 SEX WITH THE EX (Red Dress Ink).

2004 also saw O’Connell branch out into teen fiction. Hailed as "a serious contender for the teen chick lit throne" by The Bookseller for PULLING PRINCES (BloomsburyUSA) the first in the series of four books www.calypsochronicles.com about Calypso, a regular American girl packed off to a posh English boarding school where she wins the heart of a prince. Pulling Princes has been optioned for a film by Crossroads Films.

Tyne's latest teen book, also published by BloomsburyUSA True Love, The Sphinx and other unsolvable riddles (BloomsburyUSA) is out now.