Lovers & Gamblers

Featuring a brand new introduction from Alexandra Heminsley, talking about what Jackie and her books mean to her! ';What radiates from all of her novels is a sense that women are just as capable of great things as men'ALEXANDRA HEMINSLEY Al King, the rock-and-roll super stud who is everything any sex-crazed groupie ever imagined her hero to be; and Dallas, the beauty queen whose sky-high ambitions stem from a sordid secret-the type that tabloids tingle to tell. Together, theyre on a wild ride from London to New York, from Hollywood to Rio and the steaming jungles of the Amazon-where all their dreams and nightmares are about to come trueLOVERS & GAMBLERS There have been many imitators, but only ever one Jackie Collins. With millions of her books sold around the world, and thirty-oneNew York Timesbestsellers, 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 womens fictionJILLY 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 MANING ';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