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Lessing: Nobel prize was ‘bloody disaster’
Doris Lessing claims that winning the Nobel Prize for literature, as she did last autumn, has been "a bloody disaster" and that it has caused her nothing but suffering and misery. "All I do now is give interviews and spend time being photographed," the 88-year-old writer moans in an interview... [continued]
Damaging memoirs come in threes for PM
While Gordon Brown must be sick of hearing the extracts from three different sets of memoirs detailing his fractious relationship with Tony Blair, at least his old
foes are getting the revelations out of the way in one fell swoop. The autobiographies of Lord Levy, Cherie Blair... [continued]
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Cherie memoir reveals Leo’s right royal conception
Cherie Blair's "too much information" memoirs, which will be in the bookshops at the end of this week rather than October as had been planned, will cause some raised eyebrows at
Buckingham Palace today. Perhaps the most awkward of her many personal revelations is that her son... [continued]
Spoof memoirs to send up Cherie
The Mole: Alan Johnson hands Brown a lifeline
Mail critic attacks Osborne’s book
Frances Osborne (pictured), the wife of the Tory shadow chancellor, has received close to universal adulation for her latest book, The Bolter, a biography of her
racy great grandmother. Even the celebrated historian Antony Beevor called it a "deeply moving tale". However, Craig Brown, writing in yesterday's Mail on
Sunday,... [continued]
Osborne's wife reveals family skeletons
Diving Bell star joins outcry against Sarko
Last month the French actress Juliette Binoche revealed the shame she felt at having Nicolas Sarkozy as her country's head of state. Now Mathieu
Almaric (pictured), star of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and the baddie in the forthcoming Bond movie Quantum of Solace, has added... [continued]
Binoche reveals her Sarko shame
In brief: Madonna like an ‘embarrassing auntie’ at Radio 1 gig
Madonna, who turns 50 in August, was accused by one critic of a "soulless performance" which made her "resemble an embarrassing auntie desperately trying to be hip" when she appeared in concert in Maidstone as part of Radio 1's Big Weekend... British Airways chief executive Willie Walsh is set to... [continued]
Deripaska enters horse breeding world
Oleg Deripaska, Russia's richest oligarch - he has a fortune estimated at $28 billion – is about to enter the lucrative and socially prestigious world of horse breeding. The
Sunday Telegraph reports that the 40-year-old tycoon has enlisted the help of one of Britain's most prominent bloodstock... [continued]
Sheikh extends racing empire from Dubai to Oz
Conran loses appetite for restaurant business
Perhaps anticipating the catastrophic effects of a global recession on the dining habits of Londoners, Sir Terence Conran has asked the investment bank Goldman Sachs to find a buyer for his chain of eateries, among them Quaglino's, Bibendum and Le Pont de la Tour. The 77-year-old is looking for someone... [continued]
