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Judith Summers

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Judith Summers was born and brought up in London, England.

A journalist, novelist and historian,she has published five novels and five non-fiction titles.

Her memoir, My Life with George, and its sequel, The Badness of King George, both became international bestsellers, and her definitive history of Soho won the London Tourist Board Book of the Year award in 1990.


Judith has recently re-published her early novels - Dear Sister, Crime and Ravishment, and Frogs and Lovers - as ebooks.

Dear Sister hits the No.1 spot on Kindle!

Where do old novels go when they die? The answer used to be the remainder bin –
or, in my case, the graveyard of the garden shed, where the few remaining hard copies of my first published novel, Dear Sister, had been gathering dust for a quarter of a century.

But this week Dear Sister became the No.1 bestseller in the Kindle UK's historical fiction chart - and no one is more surprised than I am!

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Published on April 25, 2013 15:26 Tags: sisters-fiction-ebook
Average rating: 3.63 · 1,217 ratings · 154 reviews · 29 distinct worksSimilar authors
My Life with George: What I...

3.59 avg rating — 623 ratings — published 2007 — 31 editions
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Dear Sister

3.87 avg rating — 231 ratings — published 1985 — 7 editions
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Who Gets Fluffy?

3.18 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 1992 — 9 editions
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Casanova's Women: The Great...

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The Badness of King George

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The Empress of Pleasure : T...

3.54 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions
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I, Gloria Gold

3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions
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Crime and Ravishment

3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions
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Soho: A history of London's...

4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions
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Dear Sister

3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1994
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“When asked by an English poet who was at the table to read the ancient couplet Discite grammatici cur mascula nomina cunnus/ Et cur femineum mentula nomen habet -Teach us, grammarians, why vagina (cunnus) is a masculine noun/ And why penis (mentula) is feminine –Giacomo answered it with a witty pentameter of his own invention: Disce quod a domino nomina servus habet -It is because the slave always takes the name of his master.”
Judith Summers, Casanova's Women: The Great Seducer and the Women He Loved

“Equally at ease in a palace, a merchant’s house or a brothel, and most at home between a woman’s legs, Casanova successfully straddled the worlds of the high life to which he aspired, and the low life into which he had been born.”
Judith Summers, Casanova's Women: The Great Seducer and the Women He Loved

“Today is Casanova’s seventy-third birthday, and he is already suffering from the debilitating painful bladder disorder which will claim his life in two months’ time. Considering how many deceived husbands and women must have wanted to kill him during the course of his long life it is ironic that he is destined to die of a urinary infection in the safety of his own bed.”
Judith Summers, Casanova's Women: The Great Seducer and the Women He Loved

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