Yesterday’s Blonde

Yesterday's Blond by Mark Bunyan

I wrote my first novel, Yesterday’s Blonde, in the late 80s and it was published in paperback by Brazen Books, a new imprint started by the manager of London’s Gay’s The Word bookshop, in September 1989.

The book is a short fantasy about what might have happened to Marilyn Monroe had she not died on the night of August 4th 1962. Over the next eighteen months, with the aid of her new found friend James Dean (who hasn’t died at the end of shooting Giant), Marilyn completely changes the course of American history…

Being a paperback first novel it received few reviews but those that it did get were very positive.

A comic masterpiece

Him magazine

A pearl of a book

Reporter, Stockholm

Certainly preferable to the sludge and slurry of lust and neurosis usually poured over the memory of poor Norma-Jean

Time Out, London

Great fun

Gay Times, London

Delightfully amusing, .. well worth reading

The Pink Paper, London

Sadly, like many new imprints, Brazen Books didn’t survive for more than a few titles and when they went under, the entire remaining print run of Yesterday’s Blonde was pulped.

A few second hand copies are still available on Amazon websites. In August 2010 Yesterday’s Blonde became available on Amazon as a Kindle download where it’s been very well-received.

Find Yesterday’s Blonde on Amazon.co.uk