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“... and fantasy. Although both books began life as newspaper columns, it would be unfair to call Allison Pearson’s I Don’t Know How She Does It a working-mother version of Bridget Jones’s Diary. Pearson is a more literary writer than Helen Fielding (and almost as funny). On the other hand, both novels, while ...”

“... genius of EastEnders that each character is wholly unique – ‘in soap, character is destiny,’ Allison Pearson wrote in objecting to what she felt was Sharon’s implausible exit in 1995 – and at the same time almost perfectly interchangeable with any number of others, making the series a sort of cross between musical chairs and a Punch and Judy ...”

“... beneath a well-cut hop sack. It was time to underwrite the mythology. They sent for John Pearson. The ensuing case history, The Profession of Violence, is still the guv’nor among all the ranks of red and black jackets, competing for space on airport shelves with computer manuals and recycled Paris porn. Along with the Roeg/Cammell ...”