Molly Parkin personified '60s London: opening her own boutique in the Kings Road and was an award-winning, legendary fashion editor for Harpers Queen magazine and the Sunday Times. In the '70s, she wrote Love All, the first of a series of ten hugely popular bestselling comic erotic novels, which she continued writing into the '80s alongside her poetry and journalism, as well as beginning her sell-out one-woman shows all over the country. In 1987, she took the decision to give up alcohol, and moved back to her painting which has been the focus of her work up until the present day.

“Molly's swinging memoirs liberate everyone's imagination. A tragicomic rendering of a hilarious life.” - Times Literary Supplement

“A dizzying account of a 20th century sex life.” - Independent on Sunday, Books of the Year

“Exactly the kind of unapologetic paean to 60s excess you could have hoped for.” - Belfast Telegraph

Indefatigable, exuberant and insightful, Molly is now ready to celebrate a life like no other, and Welcome to Mollywood will be both a memoir and a new artistic beginning for this much-loved writer and artist. There will be appearances from her famous lovers – James Robertson Justice, John Mortimer, George Melly, Bo Diddley; stories of her drinking days with Francis Bacon at the legendary Colony; accounts of her friendships with Barbara Hulanicki of BIBA fame and fashion designer Zandra Rhodes; and throughout, a strong and individual voice which will delight her many fans and introduce her to a whole new audience.

Beautiful Books will publish the work on 21st October 2010 in a variety of simultaneous formats: initial hardback publication, audio, e-book and video – all digital versions being available as a SmartPhone application and internet download. Molly herself will be filmed reading the whole book and this version too will be available as a download. And following on from her success last year as a DJ alongside her daughter Sophie and granddaughter Carson, Beautiful Books will also release an album of music, chosen by Molly – the soundtrack to an extraordinary life.

In 2011, Beautiful Books will republish in a striking new design format the first three of Molly's comic erotic novels – Love All, Up Tight and Full Up – and a first volume of her poetry. All ten novels will be published in the new format over the following 24 months.

• ISBN 9781907616020
• Published 21st October 2010
• Size: Royal hardback
• Pages: 416
• RRP: £18.99

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