Julie Burchill est une écrivaine et chroniqueuse anglaise connue pour ses commentaires provocateurs. Débutant comme rédactrice pour le New Musical Express à l'âge de 17 ans, elle a écrit pour des journaux tels que The Sunday Times et The Guardian. Elle se déclare « féministe militante ». Elle a été impliquée à plusieurs reprises dans des actions en justice résultant de son travail. Elle est également auteur et romancière, son roman de 1989 Ambition étant un best-seller, et son roman de 2004 Sugar Rush ayant été adapté pour la télévision.
In the early hours of 31 August 1997, a spirited, compassionate and beautiful woman, who just happened to be the most famous woman in the world, met her death in a tunnel under the streets of Paris, hunted down by her pursuers. This biography examines how such a thing could come to pass.
Before Jackie Collins, Candace Bushnell and Lena Dunham, Jacqueline Susann held the world rapt with her tales of the private passions of Hollywood starlets, high-powered industrialists and the jet-set. Valley of the Dolls took the world by storm when it was first published, fifty years ago. Never had a book been so frank about sex, drugs and show business. It is often sited as the bestselling novel of all time. Dolls - red or black; capsules or tablets; washed down with vodka or swallowed straight. For Anne, Neely and Jennifer, it doesn't matter, as long as the pill bottle is within easy reach. These three beautiful women become best friends when they are young and in New York, struggling to make their names in the entertainment industry. Only when they reach the peak of their careers do they find there's nowhere left to go but down - to the Valley of the Dolls.
This wonder Girls on Film by Julie Burchill, is interesting. Julie Burchill is introduced for the first time to an American audience. Here Burchill looks at the movies, and particular its female stars, exposing the achingly ambiguous relationship between the images on the screen and the people who created and then consumed them.
The book explores the fallout from a controversial column written by journalist Julie Burchill in 2013, which led to her being targeted by political extremists and silenced for years. Blending memoir with critique, it examines the rise of Woke culture and its implications. Burchill reflects on her upbringing in a Communist household and her lifelong Labour affiliation while advocating for a more inclusive, progressive political future that emphasizes shared humanity over divisive narratives of villains and victims.
Maria Sweet, known as Sugar, is determined to escape Brighton after her husband takes their daughter. With a plan to find a job and earn money, she hopes to start anew. Meanwhile, she believes Kim Lewis could be the love of her life.
The remarkable manifesto of a gifted journalist and self-proclaimed egotist. Drugs, men, and women: Julie Burchill leaves nothing unexamined. She embraces life's unpredictability, diving headfirst into experiences that lead to a dazzling career as a publicist at a young age, eventually becoming the queen of the Bohemian circle at the Groucho Club. Two decades filled with scandals and successes provide the material for a provocative and highly entertaining autobiography. Born in Bristol in 1959, Burchill moved to London at 17 and began her journalistic career at the New Musical Express. She soon contributed to publications such as Face, the Sunday Times, and The Guardian. In addition to her journalism, she has authored several novels, non-fiction works, and plays. Today, Julie Burchill resides in Brighton.
It's survival of the fittest at Ravendene Comprehensive - the terrifying teenage jungle for which Kim Lewis must trade her safe, posh private school. But help is at hand - in the unlikely form of the rude, raucous, toxic and tantalizing Maria (aka Sugar) Sweet, queen of the 'Ravers'.As Kim falls quickly under her spell, and gambles her good-girl past for an exciting life of late-night parties and daring emotion, she must ask herself a disturbing question: has she fallen in love with her best friend?Julie Burchill's Sugar Rush is saucy, shimmering, loud and larger than life - come get your sugar fix!
A novel revealing the ambitions within a newspaper empire, by a well known and outspoken journalist. This is the story of Susan Street's fight for the top job, and an examination of modern female aspirations.
Julie Burchill, 1959 in Bristol geboren, zog mit siebzehn Jahren nach London und begann ihre journalistische Laufbahn beim einflußreichen Musikmagazin «New Musical Express». Bald sollte sie auch für das Magazin «Face» schreiben, für die «Sunday Times» und «Mail on Sunday». Daneben hat sie Romane, Sachbücher und Dramen verfaßt.
