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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

When I think back to my time as a punk, the seven stages of grief--shock, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, testing and acceptance--invariably cross my mind. Luckily I quit being one [...]

Walk Through Walls: a Memoir Marina Abramovic, with James Kaplan Fig Tree, 370pp. 20 £ I'd never heard of Marina Abramovic, but those nice people at Wikipedia tell me that, [...]

Stop Bloody Bossing Me About: How We Need To Stop Being Told What to Do by Quentin Letts Constable, [pounds sterling]16.99, pp. 240 What an awful title. Something we hacks [...]

Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars by David Hepworth Bantam, 20 [pounds sterling], pp. 333 David Hepworth is such a clever writer--not just clever in the [...]

A Woman's Work by Harriet Harman Allen Lane, 20 [pounds sterling], pp, 416 Everywoman: One Woman's Truth About Speaking the Truth by Jess Phillips Hutchinson, 14.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 256 [...]

Everything I Know About Love Dolly Alderton Fig Tree, 336pp. 12.99 [pounds sterling] Until recently, I would have placed dating columnists somewhere between car-testers and topiary-correspondents in the hack hierarchy [...]

The Myth of Meritocracy: Why Working-class Kids Still Get Working-class Jobs by James Bloodworth Biteback Publishing, 10 [pounds sterling], pp. 144, ISBN 9781785900532 'Your old man's barking!' I remember hissing [...]

The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore Scribe, 20 £, pp. 448, ISBN 9781922247889 Spectator Bookshop, 17 £ It's always interesting when people succeed in two different arenas--like [...]

Selfish, Whining Monkeys by Rod Liddle 4th Estate, 14.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 256, ISBN 9780007351275 Spectator Bookshop, 12.99 [pounds sterling] Littlejohn's Lost World by Richard Littlejohn Hutchinson, 18.99 [pounds sterling], [...]

GIVE THE ANARCHIST A CIGARETTE by Mick Farren Cape, 16.99 £, pp. 421, ISBN 0224060740 Here's one for `Dear Mary' and no mistake. Recently, I have noticed that many of [...]

BLACK VINYL, WHITE POWDER by Simon Napier-Bell Ebury Press, 16.99 £, pp. 390, ISBN 0091869927 There is something of Oscar Wilde about Simon Napier-Bell, and it's not just his name. [...]

Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beachboy by Mike Love Faber, 20 £, pp. 448 I Am Brian Wilson: The Genius Behind the Beach Boys by Brian Wilson Coronet, 20 [...]

The Hot Topic: A life-changing look at the Change of Life by Christa D'Souza Short Books, 8.99 £, pp. 204, ISBN 9781780722672 The Middlepause: on turning 50 by Marina Benjamin [...]

HELL HATH NO FURY: WOMEN'S LETFERS FROM THE END OF THE AFFAIR edited by Anna Holmes Robson Books, 9.99 £, pp. 375, ISBN 1861056885 Without meaning to come the Big […]

LANDESMANIA by Philip Trevena Tiger of the Stripe, 50 Albert Road, Richmond, Surrey TW 10 6 DP, Tel: 0208 940 8087, email: peter@tigerofthestripe.co.uk, www.tigerofihestripe.co.uk, 18.99 £+2.50 £ p&p, pp.168, ISBN […]

THE BOY by Germaine Greer Thames & Hudson, 29.95 £, pp. 2.56, ISBN 050023809X At the risk of being vulgar, I can't I help thinking that Dr Greer's ('At least [...]

How To Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran Ebury Press, 14.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 343, ISBN 9780091949006 Spectator Bookshop, 12.99 [pounds sterling] At a time when feminism is grimly engaged […]

Language!: 500 Years of the Vulgar Tongue by Jonathon Green Atlantic, 25 [pounds sterling], pp. 432 ISBN 9781848878983 Spectator Bookshop, 20 [pounds sterling] I've always said that speech is my [...]

Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Happier Life by Ariana Huffington W.H. Allen, 16.99 £, pp.342, ISBN 9780753555408 Spectator Bookshop, 13.99 £ A-Huff's career has been […]

MARGARET: THE LAST REAL PRINCESS by Noel Botham Blake, 16.99 £, pp. 370, ISBN 1903402646 The details of the Princess Margaret Story are as familiar as those of the Nativity [...]

MEMOIRS OF AN UNFIT MOTHER by Anne Robinson Little, Brown, 16.99 £, pp. 295, ISBN 0316857777 To a certain sort of male journalist -- and Esther Rantzen -- the spectacular [...]

HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND ALIENATE PEOPLE by Toby Young Little Brown, 9.99 £, pp. 352, ISBN 0316857912 I met Toby Young when he was a 20-year-old undergraduate and I [...]

AMONG THE BOHEMIANS: EXPERIMENTS IN LIVING, 1900-1939 by Virginia Nicholson Penguin/Viking, 20 £, pp. 362, ISBN 0670889660 From the time I was a little girl, long before I knew I [...]