Jilly cooper: in my own words

It’s astonishing to me how lucky I’ve been – because it is luck; of course it is!’ says Celia Imrie, beaming, as she holds up the Raindance Icon Award she picked up in London the night before. With he

If you’re mourning your youth, pick up a novel featuring a fierce woman of a certain vintage, says author Louise Candlish

You need the hardest of hearts not to love a love story, and one that raises a laugh as the course of true love fails to run smoothly only ups the feelgood factor. This is borne out by the fact that f

A NEW WAVE OF ADAPTATIONS PROVES THAT WE CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF ON-SCREEN AUSTEN

We’ve got a really close-knit family. My relationship with my parents has always been really good. Now I hold up my parents as models of how to raise my own children. My children are really young at t

BY THE BOOK I’m writing to say how ...