On New Year's Eve 1977, novelist Adam Mars-Jones told his father he was gay. He was 27 at the time, so hardly a tremulous teenager. But, still, he was full of apprehension - not least because his father, High Court judge Sir William Mars-Jones, was practically the embodiment of the hidebound, homophobic Establishment
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Can a man really breastfeed a kitten? It's not a question you expect to arise in a book about the leading literary lights of the Thirties. But towards the end of this eye-popping family narrative, the sculptor Matthew Spender - son of the poet Stephen - claims that when he was 23, his future mother-in-law rescued a half-drowned kitten from a Greek beach and insisted he suckle the creature to prevent it from becoming 'psychologically deprived'.
'The world is my studio', Parkinson once told an interviewer. In a career that spanned seven decades, the flamboyant fashion photographer was a master.
This is the very opposite of a misery memoir. A merriment memoir, maybe? Whatever we call it, there should be more of them. Miles Morland was born in India in the Forties to his father in the Navy.
In the 51 years since its first publication, the Pirelli calendar has never featured a spare tyre. What it has done is adorn Naomi Campbell in gold leaf, wrap Kate Moss in a scrap of sackcloth.
From the Shetland Islands to the southernmost point of Cornwall, the beauty and variety of the British landscape is matched by a literary heritage of superlative richness.
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The childhood of Bernard and Lili Gutmann was a charmed one. Their father, Fritz, was an heir of the Gutmann banking dynasty, a family of wealthy, highly educated Jews who ran a bank.
Maggie Smith, left, met Carry On star Kenneth Williams, right, in 1957. A new biography argues that this decades-long friendship inspired the actor in one of her most revered roles, as Violet Crawley of Downton. Smith, who was born in Essex in 1934, was soon upstaging the likes of Laurence Olivier and went on to star in the Harry Potter films.
Who would be a spy? It has always seemed to me a particularly depressing kind of job, involving a lot of standing on street corners, smoking suspiciously.
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In the finale of her unique inside story, Vicky Pryce, the wife of disgraced ex-minister Chris Huhne, describes life at open prison East Sutton Park.
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In his compelling new biography, Gary Morecambe talks about his father's relationship with Ernie Wise and how he continued to make them laugh even up until the end.
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