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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 [...]

Watching the recent footage of Islamic State gang members haggling over the price of captured Christian women in a makeshift slave market--one of them wants a 15-year-old with green eyes, [...]

My husband and I stay for a week most summers in Portmeirion, the strangest and loveliest 'village' in the world. Built amid 20 miles of woodland on the peninsula of [...]

In the heyday of the Hollywood studio system, Louis B. Mayer, head of MGM ('More stars than there are in the heavens') was rumoured to have had a very strange […]

Pity the modern starlet. Be she steaming-hot pop-tart or reality-show showoff, her range of emotional experiences will, thanks mostly to the gentlemen of the press, be strictly limited. She will [...]

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 […]

'There's a dark cloud rising from the desert floor/ I packed my bags and I'm heading straight into the storm/ Gonna be a twister to blow everything down/ That ain't [...]

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 [...]

For the past decade, I have lived--literally--between a church and a synagogue; as metaphors go, I would get laughed out of town if I stuck it in a novel. I [...]

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 […]

When I heard that the television pundit and all-round nepot Kelly Osbourne had gone into 'food rehab' upon gaining weight, I fair choked on my cronut. Crumbs! Is there any [...]

I used to think nothing would ever be more important. I was wrong From the age of 13, when the hormones kicked in, till I left my parents home at [...]

On Saturday morning, when the body of the beautiful Antipodean model and television personality Charlotte Dawson was being taken from her home in Sydney, I was back in Blighty rolling [...]

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 [...]

The author describes her addictive feelings towards the 1991 song 'Unfinished Sympathy' by Massive Attack. The psychological effects of pop songs, the relationship between such songs and sexual restlessness, and the love-hate nature of a favorite song are discussed.

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 [...]

Pamela Anderson was discovered at a Canadian football game and her career was launched. She posed for Playboy, appearing on the cover, got roles in television programs 'Home Improvement' and 'Baywatch' and now stars in the film, 'Barb Wire.' She married rock star Tommy Lee.

The authors discuss their views on the issue of whether Great Britain should remain a member of the European Union (EU). Topics discussed include theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking asserting that Great Britain should remain with the EU for security and economic reasons, Southbank Centre artistic director Jude Kelly stating that membership benefits British art and the British public in general and barrister Helena Kennedy claiming that being part of the EU means sharing ideas with others.

Steinem is too self-centered and focused on finding her 'inner child.' This is boring, and her years of therapy have not made her more interesting. Her new book, 'Moving Beyond Words,' covers no new ground.

The sixties fashions were coming back. Julie Burchill analysed why they were popular in the mid-eighties Edie Sedgwick was Girl of the Year, Ready Steady Go and The Avengers played [...]