Honest – Ulrika Jonsson

Ulrika’s autobiography written in her own style with emotion and humour. From her childhood through to the birth of her daughter , Bo, and her relationship with Sven-Goran Eriksson. She covers a lot of ground : family, TV-AM, Gladiators, marriage, birth of her son, infidelity within her marriage to John Turnbull as well as her relationships with both ‘Hunter’ from Gladiators and Stan Collymore. She does highlight the importance of her family and children in her life. Ulrika comes across as determined, emotional, ambitious and protective of her children. Can she write? At times it’s a pleasure to read and she expresses the emotion of specific events well. On occasion she slips into a jokey style which unfortunately jarred. Overall ... go Ulrika- ka –ka!!

The sexual life of Catherine M – Catherine Millett

Erotic memoirs of a Parisian art critic who caused a minor sensation with her tales of orgies in the Bois de Boulogne and sheer sexual exploration. Interesting but didn’t really ‘get it’.

A perfectly good family – Lionel Shriver

Set around the family who own a reconstruction mansion in North Carolina this novel certainly demonstrates Lionel Shriver’s skills and is worth reading. The mansion is called Heck-Andrews and becomes a point of contention between three siblings on the death of their parents. Corlis McCrea returns to the family home to find she is back in her childhood role of switching alliances between her two brothers. Younger Truman is the sensible, conservative married one. Her older brother Mordecai is spontaneous, wild and often drunk. Their inheritance, of characteristics as well as property, from their parents is explored and dissected in Shriver’s sharp and intelligent style