Bridget Jones

Will the ‘bunny boiler’ tag continue to haunt single women?

1 November 2025 9:00 am

From the femme fatale of noir to Fatal Attraction’s Alex, the unattached female has often been feared and scorned

Strangely moving: Bridget Jones – Mad About the Boy reviewed

15 February 2025 9:00 am

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is the fourth outing for our heroine as played by Renée Zellweger and I…

Heartbreak in the workplace: Green Dot, by Madeleine Gray, reviewed

10 February 2024 9:00 am

Hera is 24, bisexual and usually dates women. But her infatuation with Arthur, an older, married journalist in her office, grows all-consuming

Women, married or single, get a raw deal at Christmas

15 December 2018 9:00 am

There’s a Christmas poem of mine, written in the 1980s, that ends with the line ‘And the whole business is…

‘Mother says I look like a sick ostrich’

30 April 2016 9:00 am

Most modern biographers feed off celebrity like vampires let loose in a blood bank. That is why their books sell:…

You want a sinkhole to appear and swallow them up: Simon Pegg (Jack) and Lake Bell (Nancy)

Stolen goods

30 May 2015 9:00 am

Man Up is a British rom-com starring Simon Pegg as Jack and Lake Bell as Nancy. Nancy’s problem, at the…