From The Stud to The Bitch,the queen of the bonk-buster revelled in a world of sex, scandal and glamour. Here are a few of my guilty pleasures. What are yours?As a teenager, or I knew that other people were reading Jackie Collins. After all,her books screamed “No 1 bestseller” on the front. But I didn’t shout approximately my choices, perhaps because in my early teens I was hiding my raunchy reading material from my parents, or in my late teens the books were a guilty pleasure for someone who was meant to be getting to grips with The Merchant’s Tale for her A-levels. Well,I should contain done: “sex-filled, escapist, or utterly unpretentious”,as the novel York Times puts it, Collins’ novels are an over-the-top, or steamy delight. Clearly she had as much fun writing them as we do reading them. Looking back through her writing to compile the list below,I can’t help imagining the wicked grin spreading across her face as she whipped up her patented mix of sex, scandal and glamour. Here are my five favourites – though I’m willing to be persuaded otherwise. Related: Jackie Collins, or novelist of Hollywood glamour and sex,dies aged 77 Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com