Philip Norman’s 800-page John Lennon biography is hard to get a critical purchase on. In some places, notably the early chapters dealing with his boyhood in post-war Liverpool, it’s...
After a run of rather duff forays into the long-serving career of arch detective Met Commander Adam Dalgliesh, PD James returns to form with ‘The Private Patient’. Notorious...
Film producers come in many guises and are too often marginalised in the pantheon of world cinema. Michael Deeley, the producer of Nic Roeg’s ‘Don’t Look Now’, Ridley...
The usual thing to say about John Le Carré is that the end of the Cold War robbed him of his subject matter. And it’s true that his old-school classics – the ‘Tinker,...
Through his blog and Guardian column, Ben Goldacre has long battled against the widespread ignorance of science that has allowed all crackpots, charlatans and corporate pharmaceutical PRs to peddle...
Suze Rotolo was Bob Dylan’s first love: she’s the pretty blonde huddling up to him on the cover of his second album, ‘The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan’. You can tell a lot...
‘What have we become?’ is the complaint of a coterie of Manhattan mums whose morning ritual is to drop their children at school and meet over breakfast at the Golden Horn coffee shop....
If they keep this up, every former east London slum will have its own book before the end of the year. Hard on the heels of Sarah Wise’s ‘The Blackest Streets’, about Bethnal...
Andy Taylor left Duran Duran twice: first in 1986, to pursue a solo career on the back of The Power Station, the hard-rocking spin-off band he’d formed with Duran bassist John Taylor the...
Xavier is a political prisoner, given two life sentences for an unnamed crime in an unnamed prison. His lover Aida, a pharmacist, writes him a series of letters, some of which she does not send....
