The master storyteller
With his latest crime novel just out, bestselling author and former politician Jeffrey Archer shows no signs of slowing down
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Diamond Dame
In a rare, exclusive interview, Dame Shirley Bassey reflects on her glittering career, her life in Monaco and her favourite James Bond
Love & loss
Former Tatler editor Gavanndra Hodge talks about a wild childhood on the King’s Road, and the tragic death of her younger sister on a family holiday which inspired her book Consequences of Love
A literary love affair
The passionate relationship between Virginia Woolf and one of Belgravia’s most famous former residents, writer Vita Sackville-West, is exposed by a new book of their steamy love letters
Princely tales
Behind the iron will, rumoured liaisons and infamous gaffes, who is the real Prince Philip? Ingrid Seward’s new book puts the record straight
Desert Island Books
Furniture maker and honorary chairman of Christie’s, the Earl of Snowdon loves a historical book or a good biography
When Toto met Coco
How the life of former Vogue cover girl and British spy Toto Koopman intertwined with the queen of couture and Nazi agent Coco Chanel
Glam & Gloss
The former head of Condé Nast, Nicholas Coleridge CBE, talks to Cally Squires about magazines, museums and selective memoirs
Desert Island Books
The bestselling author, television presenter and adventurer Simon Reeve reveals the five books he could not be without on his castaway island
Wishing for a star
Columnist and author Sophia Money-Coutts tells Cally squires about the joys of writing and researching her third novel, The Wish List, in Chelsea.
The mole in Windsor Castle
When local resident James Reatchlous used to tell his young daughters stories about a mole, little did he know they would one day be made into a global tv series.
Tony Parsons’ favourite books
The acclaimed author and journalist shares his favourite books
