Books by Jacky Hyams

JACKY HYAMS is a freelance journalist, editor, columnist and author with over 25 years' experience in writing for mass-market magazines and newspapers in the UK and Australia. A Londoner who has spent many years travelling, her feature-writing career was launched in Sydney, Australia, where she wrote extensively for the Sydney Morning Herald, Sun Herald, Cosmopolitan, Rolling Stone, Good Housekeeping, New Idea, Clio and The Australian Women's Weekly. Returning to London, she spent several years as a women's magazine editor on Bella Magazine, followed by six years as a weekly columnist on the London Evening Standard. Her memoir, Bombsites and Lollipops: My 1950s East End Childhood, and its follow-up, White Boots & Miniskirts: A True Story of Life in the Swinging Sixties, were published in 2011 and 2013 respectively, both by John Blake Publishing. She is also the author of The Real Downton Abbey, a brief guide to the Edwardian era (John Blake Publishing, 2011) and The Female Few, a study of the women Spitfire pilots of the Air Transport Auxiliary, while her most recent book is Bomb Girls: Britain's Secret Army: The Munitions Women of World War II (John Blake Publishing, 2013).