Long before Fifty Shades there was The Stud, The Bitch and Jackie Collins, queen of the bonkbuster. She has sold a staggering 500 million copies worldwide, is a multi-millionairess and has seen her dream well and truly realised. So surely she's a fan of the new wave of mummy porn? Wrong! It's 'degrading, ridiculous... and my sex is hotter! ...read

Apparently, our menu has been chosen for us, as part of the 'package', something that would usually send me into a blind rage. Tonight, though, it doesn't seem to matter. Much is made of their kitchen garden, a few metres to our left, and in mid-August the place is suitably fecund. We eat crab, watercress and pickled fennel, sweet, sharp and pert. ...read

Spätlese applies to ripe grapes usually picked a week or so after the rest of the harvest, giving concentration to the wines. They can vary from light to rich, dry to surprisingly sweet. I prefer them when they are poised between zingy and fruity, somewhere between a mango and a pineapple. ...read

In a world where Apple and Samsung adverts look like they're selling eternal life rather than phones, OnePlus is the equivalent of a supermarket own brand. It's about time. Upgrading smartphones - even Apple ones - has got a lot more boring of late. Five years ago you would tear the things open in a rapture, inhaling that delicious Apple scent. Now you largely think, 'Oh. It's just like my last one.' ...read

It's almost impossible to over-emphasise the amount of effort that's obviously gone into making this thing look like a statement of intent. For the week I drove it, heads of various passers-by turned around so far I thought they were going to snap off. Granted, not so many females, but most blokes and male adolescents who woke up that morning with a pulse. ...read

'It was just for research,' stammered Celia, deploying the oldest excuse in the online miscreants' charter. She had, it transpired, once interviewed Ashley Madison's founder and former CEO Noel Biderman. And the newspaper she works for insisted she set up a bogus membership. But my investigation will only be closed when I establish exactly if and when she cancelled that membership... ...read

Ten years ago cyber hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist were first unleashed in the late Stieg Larsson's stunning debut novel, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. To date, the Millennium trilogy - which comprises Dragon Tattoo and its two sequels, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest - has sold more than 80 million copies across the globe. This Thursday, the series continues with The Girl in the Spider's Web, by acclaimed author David Lagercrantz - but read our world exclusive extract here first... ...read

At 58, with greying hair, he's more wise old sage than wild child these days. But the violin maestro is still a rock 'n' roll rebel at heart - which is why he's going on tour with the music of the Purple Haze guitar star. He has been captivated by Hendrix since he first heard his music while cloistered at the Yehudi Menuhin School in Surrey from the age of seven to 16. ...read