“Caroline Phillips is a tenacious and skilful writer with a flair for high quality interviewing and a knack for making things work.”
Everybody’s always rude about me, says Ann Widdecombe, former Prisons Minister, talking on the phone like a brisk schoolmistress. This time she’s in the spotlight over a very public squabble with her former boss, the Tory leadership contender Michael Howard.
After four months of captivity in the jungle, former hostage Daniel Start is coming to terms with life again.
Both feted and hated for his powers, the flamboyant psychic Matthew Manning will today hold a mass hands-on session.
Women inspire him but he can’t find love. He lives by spinning words yet hides behind them… Can anyone understand JP Donleavy?
Bel Mooney rose from humble beginnings to become a top author, surviving a succession of traumas along the way.
His ‘livelihood’ cost him years in prison but it brought him millions, fame and some strange family values. Meet Howard Marks.
After 40 years of life with little children, dynamic thespian Sir Peter Hall counts his blessings.
Millionaire author Frederick Forsyth has been self-professedly publicity shy all his life. But this year, aged 59, Forsyth has become a very public and political animal. Few issues escape his attention as he fires off letters to newspapers, pens controversial articles and joins demonstrations.
People used to poke fun at Linda Agran. Then she turned the tables…
Christina Davidson, 44, and Jean Selby, 52, have seen the musical of Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 74 times and 64 times respectively. They went both to the matinee and evening performance one day last week, as they do so often.
The chairman, a rubicund man with a gale-force voice and peeling nose, shakes my hand and runs off. A minute later he sprints past again. “It’s to do with tourism”, he’s bellowing to the minion scuttling behind him. He’s Sir Jocelyn Stevens, chairman of English Heritage, reputedly a monster and one whose nicknames are Piranha Teeth and Terminator 3.
The Marquis of Bath is 65 next month, but the peer with a penchant for polygamy still dreams of siring children on the wrong side of the blanket.
When JG Ballard died, in April 2009, few people knew he had been planning a new work. The author of Crash and Empire of the…
NOT heard of Lili Tarkow-Reinisch yet? Well, you soon will. She’s one of London’s hottest new songwriters. Her lyrics are being promoted across the Atlantic…
When you see Samantha Davies pottering about in a teeny pink bikini on her pink sailing boat, Roxy, and spritzing her cabin with perfume, it’s…