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Insights into the minds of the legendary, “scandalous” authors Jacqueline Susann and Jackie Collins


Insights into the minds of the legendary, “scandalous” authors Jacqueline Susann and Jackie Collins

In Gill Paul’s latest book, Scandalous Women, a historical novel about the phenomenal bestselling authors Jacqueline Susann and Jackie Collins – both famous for their sex-heavy fiction and their struggle for recognition and critical acceptance in the male-dominated publishing world of the 1960s – there is a shocking scene that could have come straight from […]

It doesn’t surprise me that sales of erotic novels have doubled – women have always been sex-obsessed


It doesn’t surprise me that sales of erotic novels have doubled – women have always been sex-obsessed

I still remember the time my boyfriend and I bought our first ‘sexy’ books. We were excited and silly as we browsed the extensive Mills & Boon selection at WH Smith, two university students instantly transported back to our 13-year-old selves. There were so many genres in the smorgasbord of erotica that lay before us […]