Belle de Jour

Belle de Jour
Author: Michael Wood
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2019-07-25
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1838714499

Severine (Catherine Deneuve) is a listless haute bourgeouise wife with a secret afternoon life of prostitution. Her life twists repression and guilt together with uninhibited behaviour, strangled libido with its liberated counterpart. Luis Bunuel was catapulted into cinematic history by his groundbreaking Dali collaboration, Un Chien Andalou, in 1929, but it is Belle de Jour (1967) which inaugurates the extraordinary late phase of his work. It is a film shimmering with reflections on truth, fiction and fantasy, in addition to caustic social insight, as it tells the story of a woman clearing her mind, perhaps, of its ghosts.

The Intimate Adventures Of A London Call Girl

The Intimate Adventures Of A London Call Girl
Author: Belle de Jour
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2010-03-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0297861026

The bestselling and infamous diary of a high-class call girl, as seen on the show starring Billie Piper. Belle de Jour is the nom de plume of a high-class call girl working in London. This is her story. From the summer of 2003 to the autumn of 2004 Belle charted her day-to-day adventures on and off the field in a frank, funny and award-winning web diary. Now, in her Intimate Adventures, Belle elaborates on those diary entries, revealing (among other things) how she became a working girl, what it feels like to do it for money, and where to buy the best knickers for the job. From debating the literary merits of Martin Amis with naked clients to smuggling whips into luxury hotels, this is a no-holds barred account of the high-class sex-trade, and an insight into the secret life of an extraordinary woman.

Belle de Jour's Guide to Men

Belle de Jour's Guide to Men
Author: Belle De Jour
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Man-woman relationships
ISBN: 9780753827475

This book is funny, surprising and always entertaining. Just sit back, relax and listen to what your friends are too polite to tell you. About when you need or want a man and when you damn well don't. Whether you want to find men, lure them, ditch them, hitch them here's the lowdown.

Belle de Jour

Belle de Jour
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Grand Central Pub
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780446694506

A behind-the-scenes account of the world of high-class escorts, told from the perspective of a call girl who pursued a taboo career in London after she was unable to support herself on the proceeds of her impressive education, describes her lucrative relationships with a range of wealthy clients. Reprint.

The Turning Tide

The Turning Tide
Author: Brooke Magnanti
Publisher: Orion
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-02-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781409163749

Erykah Macdonald has a nice life, the kind you're supposed to want. But on her twentieth wedding anniversary, she's about to cross a line. Several hundred miles away in the shallow waters of a Hebridean island, a body is found and it's clear this is no accidental death. Erykah has to make an irreversible choice - she's used to living with secrets but there are far worse secrets about to emerge. From a morgue in the Highlands to the powerplays in Westminster, a net is tightening. And those that find themselves caught will kill to get out. Erykah must decide what she's capable of. She should be scared - but sometimes, crossing the line is the first step to freedom...

The Further Adventures of a London Call Girl

The Further Adventures of a London Call Girl
Author: Belle de Jour
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2010-03-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0297861034

''She lists like Hornby. She talks dirty like Amis. She has the misanthropy of Larkin and examines the finer points of sexual technique as she is adjusting the torque on a beloved but temperamental old E-type...It's hard to believe that this clever and candid new voice has no more to say. Whoever the author is, she should give up the day job. Only then will we find out what the real Belle de Jour is made of.' Independent This follow-up to the hugely successful 'Intimate Adventures' will be just as bold, funny and brilliant. Peppered with agony-aunt letters and advice, and stories from her 'working' life, it's also the story of a young woman making her way in the world - told in Belle's inimitable voice.

Playing the Game

Playing the Game
Author: Belle de Jour
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2010-01-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1409106772

The first novel from the most infamous call girl in town... Game over? Belle is starting to wonder if she should call time on the call girl business: get a day job, a life free from secrets and have a 'normal' relationship with the Boy. But will Belle cope with the nine-to-five, a staggering decline in her underwear budget and no more paid sex? As Belle explores life and love after the game, her story is frank, smart and refreshingly honest. Punctuated with advice, anecdotes and reflections in her inimitable voice, this is a novel of secrets and lies, scabrous wit and more than a little lust.

Belle's Best Bits

Belle's Best Bits
Author: Belle de Jour
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2012-06-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1780224516

From the summer of 2003 Belle charted her day-to-day adventures on and off the field in a frank, funny and award-winning diaries. She was the first to reveal (among other things) how she became a working girl, what it feels like to do it for money, and where to buy the best knickers for the job. She also discusses her efforts to change from 'working girl' to working girl, whilst sneaking off to visit clients in her lunch hour. From debating the literary merits of Martin Amis with naked clients to smuggling whips into luxury hotels, this is a no-holds barred account of the high-class sex-trade, and an insight into the secret life of an extraordinary woman.

Belle De Jour

Belle De Jour
Author: Joseph Kessel
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2007-04-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1468307789

The scandalous novel that inspired the Luis Buñuel movie starring Catherine Deneuve. “A relentless exposé of passion . . . An emotional adventure.” —Chicago Sun-Times Severine Serizy is a wealthy and beautiful Parisian housewife. She loves her husband, but she cannot share physical intimacy with him, and her vivid sadomasochistic fantasies drive her to seek employment at a brothel. By day, she enacts her customers’ wildest fantasies under the pseudonym “Belle de Jour”; in the evenings, she returns home to her chaste marriage and oblivious husband. Famous for its unflinching eroticism, Joseph Kessel’s novel continues to offer an eye-opening glance into a unique female psyche. “Truly a work of art.” —The Houston Post “An intuitively knowledgeable novel of a woman’s double life and the dichotomy of body and soul.” —New York Post

My Last Sigh

My Last Sigh
Author: Luis Bunuel
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2013-03-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0345803701

ONE OF THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER'S 100 GREATEST FILM BOOKS OF ALL TIME • A provocative memoir from Luis Buñuel, the Academy Award winning creator of some of modern cinema's most important films, from Un Chien Andalou to The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. Luis Buñuel’s films have the power to shock, inspire, and reinvent our world. Now, in a memoir that carries all the surrealism and subversion of his cinema, Buñuel turns his artistic gaze inward. In swift and generous prose, Buñuel traces the surprising contours of his life, from the Good Friday drumbeats of his childhood to the dreams that inspired his most famous films to his turbulent friendships with Federico García Lorca and Salvador Dalí. His personal narratives also encompass the pressing political issues of his time, many of which still haunt us today—the specter of fascism, the culture wars, the nuclear bomb. Filled with film trivia, framed by Buñuel’s intellect and wit, this is essential reading for fans of cinema and for anyone who has ever wanted to see the world through a surrealist’s eyes.