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Today Bridget Jones 4 finally appears in cinemas, which gives me a good excuse to shout about the piece I wrote explaining why she’s so well loved by twenty-something women Have a gander (again) thetimes.com/article/d4932e…

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I reviewed a really rather brilliant book about the art of gossip - have a read thetimes.com/article/233013…

Today is a great day to buy yourself a new book

I wrote about how TikTok and Instagram are refusing to die the same deaths that Facebook and MySpace did — and why youngsters are desperate for some kind of intervention thetimes.com/uk/social-medi…

I reviewed Amanda Knox's new memoir for The Times and The Sunday Times — it's an admirable attempt at reputation restoration thetimes.com/culture/books/…

In case you missed it — here's my review of Juliet Rosenfeld's new book about affairs, which shocked and perplexed me in equal measure thetimes.com/culture/books/…

A defence of bad friends thetimes.com/article/0bf601…

Here is the best novel I've read so far this year thetimes.com/culture/books/…

As someone who has a bad habit of getting overly attached to inanimate objects, The Heart-Shaped Tin by Bee Wilson felt like a dream book — here's my review thetimes.com/culture/books/…

As always, Annie Ernaux hits the nail on the head thetimes.com/culture/books/…

Oh u poor 22 year old One day you will understand when you are 24 like me

As a boy my Dad lived in Texas for a year — last month I took him back to the Lone Star State to revisit the places he fell in love with 50 years ago Here’s my piece for Times Travel about our epic road trip thetimes.com/article/002a26…

Probably my favourite novel of the summer so far thetimes.com/culture/books/…

Oh yes --- it's that time of the year. The Times and The Sunday Times summer reading recommendations.... Enjoy thetimes.com/culture/books/…

I've spent many weeks in Paris over the last few years and this was a book that truly did the city justice thetimes.com/culture/books/…

Which male celeb captured "the mood and the knickers of a generation"? Find out in my review of Bea Martinez-Gatell's new book Swoon, a history of fangirling thetimes.com/culture/books/…

Here's why you should finally get back to that person you've been ignoring for weeks thetimes.com/culture/books/…

I thoroughly enjoyed Katie Yee's debut novel — if you're a fan of Nora Ephron's Heartburn, this one's for you thetimes.com/culture/books/…

Here's my review of an amusing German novel about an old man who must fend for himself after his dutiful wife stops getting out of bed Props to the (presumably) elderly reader who commented "Too close to home truths, may avoid from fear" thetimes.com/culture/books/…