American Star : introduced by Isabelle Broom

Featuring a brand new introduction from�bestselling author, Isabelle Broom, talking about what Jackie and her books mean to her!� `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'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 HOOVERAmerican Star is a compelling story of love, sex and murder, set against the glamorous backgrounds of New York and Hollywood. 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 `What Jackie knew how to do so well, is to tell a thumping good story' ROWAN COLEMAN `I read hundreds of books every year. But Jackie Collins' novels are the only ones I can read over and over' AMY ROWLAND `Jackie wrote with shameless ambition, ruthless passion and pure diamond-dusted sparkle' CATHERINE STEADMAN `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 `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 `What radiates from her novels, is a sense that women are capable of great things' ALEXANDRA HEMINSLEY