{"product_id":"9781398513372","title":"The Stud : introduced by Catherine Steadman by Jackie Collins","description":"Includes a new introduction from New York Times?bestselling author, Catherine Steadman, where she talks about what this book and Jackie means to her.    `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 `For all her trademark sass, there is a moralist at work here' LOUISE CANDLISH `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 `Jackie wrote about Hollywood with total authenticity, breaking all the rules and taboos' BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD `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\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56298324394357,"sku":"9781398513372","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781398513372.jpg?v=1762782826","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781398513372","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}