George Clooney in negotiations to direct a feature adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning writer J.R. Moehringer’s memoir The Tender Bar By Dan Heching For Dailymail.com Published: 23:42 BST, 24 July 2020 | Updated: 23:53 BST, 24 July 2020 George Clooney is an Oscar-winning actor and producer who is swiftly becoming a major player as a film … Read more
Jessica Watson’s memoir True Spirit is being made into a Netflix biopic after she became the youngest person to sail around the world solo at 16 By Demeter Stamell For Daily Mail Australia Published: 06:06 BST, 16 July 2020 | Updated: 06:06 BST, 16 July 2020 In 2009, Jessica Watson became the youngest person to … Read more
Mary Trump, the niece of President Donald Trump, has called on her uncle to resign from office as she breaks her silence after publishing a memoir describing him as a ‘sociopath’. ‘Resign,’ Mary Trump responded when ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos asked her what message she would have for her uncle if she were in … Read more
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
Mariah Carey shares the back cover of her upcoming memoir… which features a note from the star: ‘I went deep into my childhood and gave the scared little girl inside of me a big voice’ By Sarah Sotoodeh For Dailymail.com Published: 20:52 BST, 8 July 2020 | Updated: 20:52 BST, 8 July 2020 It was … 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
The View host Sunny Hostin has announced that she is releasing a memoir which chronicles her life growing up as an Afro-Latino in a South Bronx housing project to her successful career as an attorney and journalist. The 51-year-old television personality took to Twitter on Tuesday to reveal that she is releasing an autobiography titled … 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
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