Frank Sinatra’s two-year romance with the much younger actress Irene Tsu has been laid bare in her new memoirs. The 77-year-old got candid about the ‘passionate and adventurous’ affair while plugging her book A Water Color Dream: The Many Lives Of Irene Tsu to Fox News. Irene – who 29 years his junior when they … Read more
From Crime to Crime Richard Henriques Hodder & Stoughton £25 Rating: On the cover, the publishers have given this book a racy subtitle: ‘Harold Shipman To Operation Midland: 17 Cases That Shocked The World.’ This is, as it turns out, only slightly overstated. The trials with which the author has been involved, either as a … Read more
MEMOIR THE BEATLES AND BEYOND by Don Short (Wymer £14.99, 254pp) This rollicking memoir — a veritable treasure trove of anecdote and gossip — is not so much a trip down Memory Lane as a star-strewn cavalcade down Memory Motorway. Don Short is the uncrowned king of showbusiness reporters. Anyone who grew up reading the … Read more
MEMOIR THE BOY WITH TWO HEARTS by Hamed Amiri (Icon £16.99, 288pp) In 2001, when Hamed Amiri was ten years old, his mother made a speech declaring that women ‘have the same rights as men’. In Taliban-ruled Herat, Afghanistan, this was a radical statement, and a dangerous one: that night, the Mullah called for her … Read more
Gabrielle Union options George M. Johnson’s best-selling memoir All Boys Aren’t Blue for a TV series By Brian Gallagher For Dailymail.com Published: 04:54 BST, 12 June 2020 | Updated: 04:57 BST, 12 June 2020 Gabrielle Union has optioned the television rights to George M. Johnson’s best-selling memoir All Boys Aren’t Blue. The 47-year-old actress and … Read more
Nikki Bella reflects on her ‘weird’ pregnancy as she promotes new memoir with twin sister Brie… after revealing she was raped as a teenager By Jason Chester for MailOnline Published: 11:17 BST, 6 May 2020 | Updated: 11:17 BST, 6 May 2020 Twin sisters Brie and Nikki Bella returned to the promotional trail on Tuesday … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK RAKE’S PROGRESS By Rachel Johnson (Simon & Schuster £16.99, 272pp) Unless you have been on a mission to the outer reaches of the galaxy, you might have noticed an awful lot of Rachel Johnson around recently. Photographed in a magazine, her burnished cheekbones sharp enough to take out the blades on … Read more
Woody Allen has opened up about his controversial relationship with Soon-Yi Previn in his new memoir, admitting in a queasy passage that in the early days of their relationship ‘lust reigned supreme and we couldn’t keep our hands off each other’. Allen’s new memoir Apropos of Nothing, published on Monday by Arcade, is dedicated to his 49-year-old … Read more
The late Deborah Orr’s excellent memoir, Motherwell, charts her vexed relationship with her parents in impassioned yet tender prose By Anthony Quinn Published: 22:02 GMT, 25 January 2020 | Updated: 16:11 GMT, 26 January 2020 Motherwell Deborah Orr … Read more
MEMOIR THE SHAPELESS UNEASE: A YEAR OF NOT SLEEPING by Samantha Harvey (Cape £12.99, 192 pp) There can be few people for whom Samantha Harvey’s dazzling, dizzying trip through the nightmare world of the sleepless will be completely foreign. Who among us hasn’t lain awake at night counting backwards from one thousand? I can sometimes … Read more