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The Woman in Me by Britney Spears Gallery Books, [pounds sterling]25, pp. 275 I am working on a play about Marilyn Monroe at the moment and, reading Britney Spears's book, [...]

American Diva: Extraordinary, Unruly, Fabulous by Deborah Paredez Norton, [pounds sterling]22, pp. 256 'Please don't let this be a scolding!' I thought as I moved past this book's tempting title [...]

Here they come, see them run, twinkling away like a bunch of irritatingly flashing fairy lights, the milk of human kindness curdling on their breath and dollar signs in their [...]

Iwas a teenage shoplifter. I had a good run at it, from 12 to 14, and found it as addictive as any drug: the anticipation, the antsiness, the sharp stab [...]

On hearing the rumours that the boxer David Haye is in a 'throuple'--a three-person romantic relationship--with Una Healy from the Saturdays and a model named Sian Osborne, I felt a [...]

Europe, I'm told, is entering the age of the 'sober-curious'. Curiosity is a wonderful thing; why, then, did hearing this make me want to drink whisky until I talk in [...]

Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono Hutchinson Heinemann, [pounds sterling]25, pp. 563 There are a few pop stars whose work I can't help liking in spite of myself--their songwriting, [...]

My Unapologetic Diaries by Joan Collins Weidenfeld & Nicolson, [pounds sterling]20, pp. 384 Readers of this magazine will have enjoyed Joan Collins's diaries, and her Past Imperfect was one of [...]

After last week's revelation that James Corden was banned from a New York restaurant for being repeatedly horrible to staff, I've been considering the different way fat men and fat [...]

An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West by Konstantin Kisin Constable, [pounds sterling]18.99, pp. 210 Whatever one thinks of the government's plans to send refugees to Rwanda, it was amusing [...]

We don't need another hero,' sang Tina Turner back in the sexy-greedy 1980s. How times have changed. These days we have Superheroes Are Everywhere, a children's book written by the [...]

I was extra pleased to have swerved the modern curse that is Wordle when I read that 'sensitive' words have been removed from it. A spokesman proclaimed: 'In an effort [...]

Iknow that all must have prizes in the Victimisation Olympics these days, but when I heard a bicycle-rider on Radio 5 Live this week complaining about being 'dehumanised' and 'othered', [...]

I've never been keen on the idea of popularity. Courting disapproval has been a large part of my career and I find it bracing, like an early dip in a [...]

When I was young, I dated a man who wasn't in advertising, but had lots of friends who were. Because I am witty, at some point during dinner--usually when dessert [...]