THE VANITY FAIR DIARIES : 1983 – 1992 HC – TINA BROWN

The sizzling diaries of Tina Brown s eight spectacular years as editor in chief of Vanity Fair paint a riveting portrait of the flash, dash and follies of the Eighties in New York and Hollywood. A fabulous odyssey … I read it in a mad frenzy Stephen Fry Fluent, funny, fierce Sunday Telegraph The juiciest of the year Cosmoplitan Hang on – it s a wild ride Meryl Streep The Vanity Fair Diaries is the story of an Englishwoman barely out of her twenties who arrives in Manhattan on a mission. Summoned from London in hopes that she can save Conde Nast s troubled new flagship Vanity Fair, Tina Brown is immediately plunged into the maelstrom of the competitive New York media world and the backstabbing rivalries at the court of the planet s slickest, most glamour-focused magazine company. She survives the politics, the intrigue and the attempts to derail her by a simple stratagem: succeeding. In the face of rampant scepticism, she triumphantly reinvents a failing magazine. Here are the inside stories of Vanity Fair scoops and covers that sold millions: the Reagan kiss, the meltdown of Princess Diana s marriage to Prince Charles, the sensational Annie Leibovitz cover of a gloriously pregnant, naked Demi Moore. In the diary s cinematic pages, the drama, comedy and struggle of running an it magazine come to life. Brown s Vanity Fair Diaries is also a woman s journey, of making a home in a new country and of the deep bonds with her husband, their prematurely born son and their daughter. Astute, open-hearted, often riotously funny, Tina Brown s The Vanity Fair Diaries is a compulsively fascinating and intimate chronicle of a woman s life in a glittering era.