The Independent on Sunday 24th February 2008 Stella Duffy answers the door of her south London terrace covered in flour. “I’ve been baking biscuits for you,” she smiles as she heads down the narrow hallway. I scurry after her into an airy kitchen filled with the scent of spices. Cooking
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They flashed their cheque books at the London Book Fair towards the few celebrities still in need of a ghostwriter: Keith Richards was asking for £2 million and reportedly got three, though Jamie Oliver went for less.
As Harry Potter fever reached a pitch, the only distraction in May was news that Tony Blair was hawking his story around as he prepared to step down as Prime Minister. Never one to undersell himself, a £5 million price tag was placed on it. A stand-off developed between Rupert Murdoch’s HarperCollins and the German-owned Random House. In the end, Random won, no doubt aided by the fact that its chairman, Gail Rebuck, is a family friend — that and a £4.6 million advance.
The Independent on Sunday 10th February 2008 When Julie Myerson was 12, she would escape her parents’ collapsing marriage for the wild woods near home, with her two sisters in tow. Armed with paste sandwiches and bottles of pop, they would get lost in imaginative adventures designed to obliterate the
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