'Hang on - it's a wild ride' Meryl Streep
'Brilliant, concretely realised social history as much as a fabulous odyssey, and I read it in a mad frenzy' Stephen Fry
'Indiscreet, brilliantly observed, frequently hilarious' Evening Standard
'As delightful as eating a whole box of chocolates, without a trace of weight gain' Telegraph
'Heaven' India Knight, Sunday Times

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It's 1983. A young Englishwoman arrives in Manhattan on a mission. Summoned in the hope that she can save Condé Nast's troubled new flagship Vanity Fair, Tina Brown is plunged into the maelstrom of competitive New York media. She survives the politics and the intrigue by a simple stratagem: succeeding. Here are the inside stories of the 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. Written with dash and verve, the diary is also a sharply observed account of New York and London society. In its cinematic pages the drama, comedy and struggle of raising a family and running an 'it' magazine come to life.

"As delightful as eating a whole box of chocolates, without a trace of weight gain . . . irresistible" - DAILY TELEGRAPH

"I read them in one six-hour sprint of pure pleasure and joy . . . indiscreet, brilliantly observed, frequently hilarious. It's all here: the Demi Moore naked and pregnant front cover, Claus von Bulow photographed in black leather, Donald and Ivana Trump, the whole sweep of Eighties Manhattan reported at first hand in Tina's fresh, beady, borderline-paranoid style" - EVENING STANDARD

"Heaven" - SUNDAY TIMES

"Addictive . . . features encounters with every influential name under the sun (political, literary and Hollywood stars) as well as an insight into Brown's publishing power, which changed magazine journalism for ever" - i NEWSPAPER

"A great deal of fun . . . a perfect primer to the gaudy excesses of 1980s culture. It is her joy in her job, her delight at being ringside in this moment, and, most of all, her sheet chutzpah, which keeps you turning the pages" - i NEWSPAPER

"Brown is brilliant at these gleeful little character descriptions . . . She has the knack of making people instantly interesting . . . a fast-paced and head-spinningly hectic read" - SUNDAY EXPRESS

"The party-by-party, cover-by-cover story of how a Brit conquered New York publishing" - NEW STATESMAN Books of the Year

"Brown [is] a fabulous diarist. It's not just that she's a wonderful writer (although she is: fluent, funny, fierce). It's more that, even after taking her seat at America's top table, she never stops noticing. Amid the narcotic stupefaction of great wealth, Brown is invariably alert and on the money" - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

"Such a juicy read. She's honest about every interaction, no matter how big the star: every success and every mistake" - GRAZIA

"One is left with huge admiration for Brown's wit, talent and determination" - SUNDAY TIMES

"The juiciest [book] of the year" - COSMOPOLITAN

"Within a couple of years she had turned it into the house magazine of a resurgent celebrity beau monde and gained an untouchable star quality of her own. Her diaries recount this will to power with caustic drollery and dash" - FINANCIAL TIMES

"A great portrait of the greed, the glitter, the fatal superficiality of that decade . . . her witty skewerings are first-class" - THE TIMES

"A brilliant portrait of New York in an age of shoulder-padded excess by a British editor who can pass as American, but never lost her merciless gift for a great story" - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

"[A] fascinating memoir from a publishing legend" - HELLO!

"Gripping, funny . . . [Brown's] enthusiasm for New York, and magazines, is infectious" - THE ARTS DESK

"Addictive" - GUARDIAN

"The Vanity Fair Diaries has a Gone with the Wind-like feel: it's a chronicle of a lost age, before the internet, when 'to be the editor of Time or Newsweek was to be a demigod'. Yeah, and to be Tina Brown was very heaven" - LITERARY REVIEW

"A journalism masterclass" - NEW STATESMAN

"Fun and often funny" - GUARDIAN

"Tina Brown, editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair during the 1980s, covers her time in Manhattan with wit and wisdom, as she unwraps the stories behind the famous covers and tells of how she fought her corner, raised a family and strove to make the magazine a success" - SAINSBURY'S MAGAZINE

"Enthralling - and terrifying" - OBSERVER

"The perfect stocking filler for any social x-ray who yearns to wallow in nostalgia. But even students of our own time with find the prescience of Brown's observations a source of amusement." - 1843 ECONOMIST

"She makes you glad that someone was taking notes" - TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

"Anyone who was anyone in Eighties New York can be found in Brown's polished account of her time editing US magazine Vanity Fair. The result is a page-turning hymn to a vanished media age" - i

"Her pen portraits of the denizens of the Manhattan zoo are invariably sharp, and sometimes caustic . . . compulsive reading" - DAILY MAIL