The Stud: introduced by Catherine Steadman
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‘Jackie wrote with shameless ambition, ruthless passion and pure diamond-dusted sparkle’ CATHERINE STEADMAN
'Jackie Collins’s daring, unapologetic stroke of the pen, combined with her glorious wit, has single-handedly given creative license to new generations of authors and storytellers' COLLEEN HOOVER
London, 1969: a world of hedonists and pleasure-seekers living for the moment. One man at the centre of this decadent scene plays all the angles, never missing a chance to score with beautiful women. But now the woman he wants knows his number – and may just call his bluff.
There have been many imitators, but only ever one Jackie Collins. With millions of her books sold around the world, and thirty-one New York Times bestsellers, she is one of the world’s top-selling novelists. From glamorous Beverly Hills bedrooms to Hollywood movie studios; from glittering rock concerts to the yachts of billionaires, Jackie chronicled the scandalous lives of the rich, famous, and infamous from the inside looking out.
'A true inspiration, a trail blazer for women's fiction' JILLY COOPER
‘Jackie shows us all what being a strong, successful woman means at any age’ MILLY JOHNSON
‘Jackie will never be forgotten, she’ll always inspire me to #BeMoreJackie’ JILL MANSELL
‘Jackie’s heroines don’t take off their clothes to please a man, but to please themselves’ CLARE MACKINTOSH
‘Legend is a word used too lightly for so many undeserving people, but Jackie is the very definition of the word’ ALEX KHAN
‘What Jackie knew how to do so well, is to tell a thumping good story’ ROWAN COLEMAN
‘Here is a woman who not only wanted to entertain her readers, but also to teach them something; about the world and about themselves’ ISABELLE BROOM
‘Lessons galore on every page… about feminism, equality, tolerance and love’ CARMEL HARRINGTON
‘Jackie is the queen of cliff-hangers’ SAMANTHA TONGE
‘Nobody does it quite like Jackie and nobody ever will’ SARRA MANNING
‘Jackie bought a bit of glitter, sparkle and sunshine into our humdrum existence’ VERONICA HENRY
‘Collins was saying that women didn’t have to centre round men, either in books or in life’ JESSIE BURTON
‘Jackie lived the Hollywood dream, but, she looked sideways at it, and then shared the dirt with her readers’ JULIET ASHTON
Jackie Collins
Jackie Collins has been called a “raunchy moralist” by the director Louis Malle and “Hollywood’s own Marcel Proust” by Vanity Fair. With over 500 million copies of her books sold in more than forty countries, and with thirty-two New York Times bestsellers to her credit, she is one of the world’s top-selling novelists. Six of her novels have been adapted for film or TV. Collins was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) by the Queen of England in 2013 for her services to literature and charity. When accepting the honor she said to the Queen, “Not bad for a school drop-out”—a revelation capturing her belief that both passion and determination can lead to big dreams coming true. She lived in Beverly Hills where she had a front-row seat to the lives she so accurately captured in her compulsive plotlines. She was a creative force, a trailblazer for women in fiction, and in her own words “a kick-ass writer!” Her fascinating life as a writer and icon is explored in the CNN Films and Netflix documentary Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story. Discover more at JackieCollins.com.
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Reviews for The Stud
33 ratings4 reviews
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5prettty shallow. not much story line to it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Raw, racy and rambunctious, this novel is funny, fast-paced and incisive. I would never have read Collins if a friend wasn't a fan. I was expecting saccharine melodrama, not satire. The characters float through the unexpected, trying to remain cynical throughout but Collins does a great job of showing the chink in the armour, making the protagonist a likeable one, naive and soft in his own way, despite his bravado and conceit.Full of pizzazz and 70s glamour, this book was a crisp and quick read which I definitely enjoyed!
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5A uni forced read, this book was categorised as a "sex-and-shopping" novel. Now, that's also the term used for chick lit, so I was intrigued. Did I have here the grandmother of all chick lit? Uhm, no. It's a fast romp and reads like the gossip column of Hello! magazine. Which isn't a bad thing in and of itself. What I didn't like about it was the fact that in the end, nothing changed. If you shuffled the names around a bit, and replaced the names of places, you could just slpa the last chapter in front of the first chapter, and off you go again. no one's learned a leson, changed or grown as a result of the story's little twists and jabs. I also don't like glamour novels in general, so this book was off on a bad start. Still, it's not nearly as horrible as our lecturer makes it out to be.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5A uni forced read, this book was categorised as a "sex-and-shopping" novel. Now, that's also the term used for chick lit, so I was intrigued. Did I have here the grandmother of all chick lit? Uhm, no. It's a fast romp and reads like the gossip column of Hello! magazine. Which isn't a bad thing in and of itself. What I didn't like about it was the fact that in the end, nothing changed. If you shuffled the names around a bit, and replaced the names of places, you could just slpa the last chapter in front of the first chapter, and off you go again. no one's learned a leson, changed or grown as a result of the story's little twists and jabs. I also don't like glamour novels in general, so this book was off on a bad start. Still, it's not nearly as horrible as our lecturer makes it out to be.