Julie Burchill – författare

‘Some people tread water all their lives. Not me – I’m gonna make a big splash.'Maria Sweet, aka Sugar, is back. Her husband's done a runner taking their daughter with him, but at least she has a plan: get a job, get some cash and get the hell out of Brighton. And somewhere out there in the big bad world is Kim Lewis, who might just be the Love of Sugar’s Life. Sugar’s landed herself a stint as a model for local fashion designers Agnew & Bagshawe. But when she discovers they’ve exploited her,she’s hell-bent on vengeance and that can only lead to chaos . . .Sugar is as defiant and outrageous as ever in this riotous sequel to SUGAR RUSH, Burchill’s bestselling teen novel.

It is a great and glorious tradition the world over - to vehemently state one thing and then do the exact opposite. Royals are doing it, reformed smokers are doing it, and politicians are virtually synonymous with it. Welcome to the heyday of hypocrisy.From the Everyday Hypocrites (cyclists, white hip-hop fans, reality television-haters) to the truly pungent Stinking Hypocrites (chav-haters, green campaigners and anti-Americans), Julie Burchill and Chas Newkey-Burden pull no punches in their witty harangue of those who shamelessly say one thing and do another. Features the modern hypocrite's favourite holiday destinations, sporting heroes and the hilarious Hypocrites' Ultimate Weekend.

Britain is experiencing a sudden reckless rush of liberalisation, from 24 hour licensing to gay marriages. But how did we get from idolising Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier to Jordan and Peter Andre? Funny and bittersweet, Made In Brighton interweaves personal stories of life in Brighton with larger themes of sex, politics and class to take a cold, hard look at the changing face of Britain, and at the town which has always been at the vanguard of Britain's cultural evolution. From punk to dance, dope to coke, the Labour party to hen parties, straight to gay to bi, this book holds a mirror up to the dazed face of Britain and gives it a good hard slap.

No footballer has ever captured the imagination of the world as fast and as furiously as David Beckham. Julie Burchill tracks his rapid ascent from most villified man in Britain to national hero. In 1998 he made two terrible mistakes - he got a red card and he was photographed wearing a skirt. Now four years on teenage girls pine over his posters, Thai monks build shrines to him even the press who so shamefully abused him are addicted to his prescence on the field of dreams. But what does Beckham want? Is he an idiot savant, or just a fool for love? In this dazzling new book, the sharpest social commentator in Britain tackles the most stylish sportsman and - via sex, class and the celebrity culture - pins down the enigma that is David Beckham.

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!

In 2013, the journalist Julie Burchill wrote a mischievous newspaper column defending a friend against political extremists. She was pursued by an outraged mob, denounced in Parliament and never published in that paper - or any other - for many years. Welcome To The Woke Trials is part-memoir and part-indictment of what happened to her between then and now, as the regiments of woke took over; an irreverent and entertaining analysis of the key elements of a continuing and disturbing phenomenon. Raised in a communist household and a lifelong Labour voter, Burchill also makes the case for a progressive future politics, a time when we see ourselves as a common humanity with similar hopes and visions - rather than a childish world of villains and victims.

In 2013, Julie Burchill wrote a mischievous piece in the Observer to defend her friend Suzanne Moore. Burchill had not anticipated the vitriolic reaction that her words would provoke. She was pursued by the outrage mob, and there were even calls in the British House of Commons for her to be fired from her job. After that, Burchill – now known as "the dark star of Fleet Street" – was lucky to be to writing online blog pieces.Welcome to the Woke Trials is partmemoir and partindictment of what happened to Julie Burchill between then and now, as the regiments of the woke took over journalism. It is also a characteristically irreverent and entertaining analysis of the key elements of a continuing and disturbing phenomenon – all told with the common touch and rampant vulgarity that has made Burchill a household name.Raised in a communist household and a lifelong Labour Party voter, Burchill also makes the case for a progressive future politics, a time when we see ourselves as a common humanity with similar hopes and dreams rather than a childish world of villains and victims. As she argues, the day we awake from our sleepwalking cannot come too soon.

In 2013, the journalist Julie Burchill wrote a mischievous newspaper column defending a friend against political extremists. She was pursued by an outraged mob, denounced in Parliament and never published in that paper - or any other - for many years. Welcome To The Woke Trials is part-memoir and part-indictment of what happened to her between then and now, as the regiments of Woke took over; an irreverent and entertaining analysis of the key elements of a continuing and disturbing phenomenon. Raised in a Communist household and a lifelong Labour voter, Burchill also makes the case for a progressive future politics, a time when we see ourselves as a common humanity with similar hopes and visions - rather than a childish world of villains and victims.

Das großartige Manifest einer begnadeten Journalistin und bekennenden Egozentrikerin. Drogen, Männer und Frauen: Julie Burchill hat nichts ausgelassen. Sie liebt das Unberechenbare des Lebens und stürzt sich mitten hinein, macht sehr jung eine fulminante Karriere als Publizistin und avanciert später zur Königin des Bohemienzirkels «Groucho Club». Zwei Jahrzehnte voller Skandale und Erfolge bieten hier den Stoff für eine brisante und hochamüsante Autobiographie.

Trotz Schönheit, Jugend und Erfolg steht Nicole vor ihrer ersten heftigen Lebenskrise. Mit ihrem Mann Matt, einem vielbeschäftigten Modefotografen, verbindet sie allein der Sex. Zu sagen haben sich die beiden schon lange nichts mehr, und so wendet sich Matt immer häufiger seinem pflegeleichteren Model Siobhan zu. Um ihre emotionale Wüste zu beleben, ergreift Nicole radikale Maßnahmen: Sie verschleppt ihre heißgeliebte Großmutter aus dem beschaulichen Bristol ins sündige London. Ungeahnte Turbulenzen sind die Folge, vor allem, als die exzentrische alte Lady mit dem Verräter Matt einen Pakt schließt …

Diana är en biografi över och en kärleksförklaring till prinsessan Diana, och dessutom ett feministiskt skärskådande av en klass och en konstitutionsform där kvinnor i första hand betraktas som avelsston och kuttersmycken. Burchills personliga intresse för Diana var känt före bilolyckan i Paris 1997, och hon var också den som myntade begreppet »the people's princess«. Diana är en av de tre första titlarna i Modernistas systerserie Feminista.Julie Burchill föddes i Bristol. Hon började som sjuttonåring på musiktidningen NME och har sedan dess bland annat medverkat i The Face och Vanity Fair. I dag är hon krönikör i The Guardian och oavsett om hon skriver om Josef Stalin, David Beckham, hemlösa eller Gucci Rush så är Julie Burchill en av världens roligaste människor.Pressröster:»Diana får sin upprättelse. Burchill stormar in i mål, helt utan en enda konstpaus, fotnot eller vidare hänvisning. Det fungerar därför att hon aldrig låtsas som om boken är större än hon själv.«Linna Johansson, Expressen»Hon tecknar ett porträtt av överklass-/adelsdamer som i princip förklarar att överklassen saknar varje tillstymmelse till jämställdhet; ditt jobb är att krysta fram ättlingar, beställa bordsdekorationer (läs: få någon att beställa bordsdekorationer åt dig) och vara tjusig. Det är kul.«Rebecka Gunnarsson, Borås Tidning