Fall Out
Janet Street-Porter
Headline £16.99, pp311

The story so far: plucky Janet, still a teenager, has escaped dreary suburbia, ditched her fiance and shacked up with gorgeous new husband-to-be Tim Street-Porter in cool London at the height of the Swinging Sixties. Ossie Clark is running up her wedding dress and the worlds of journalism and broadcasting have been put on red alert. Now read on ...

It is perhaps unsurprising to reveal that the second volume of JSP's memoirs firmly place her, in her own words, 'at the centre of the arts and music scene in London night after night, backstage with Pink Floyd, drinking with Janis Joplin'; one wouldn't, after all, describe her as a champion hider of lights under bushels. A relief, then, to find that, alongside tales of beating Rod Stewart at snooker (on assignment for this newspaper, no less) and welcoming John Lennon and Yoko Ono to her wedding party, she has a pretty good line in self-deprecation, making great sport of her gangly legs, corncrake voice and inability to stay faithful to anyone for longer than your average Sixties drug bust. Husband number three appears at the end of the book, surely heralding another helping.