The most engrossing book I've read in an age...Jarman is the sort of troublemaking visionary who one day may be compared with Blake

A journey back and forth to the influences of sex, society and art which shaped this most individual of British film makers...There is reason to be grateful for the courageous eye he casts on his own society

Moving, poetic, inspirational

O'Brien is a capable and intelligent writer...a refreshing biography of the iconic popstress

If Madonna is your Elvis you will devour Lucy O’Brien’s definitive biography; not only can she write properly, but her book is objective, immaculately researched and illuminating.

Lucy O’Brien’s measured and comprehensive profile takes a look at [Madonna's] extraordinary life to date, focusing on the cultural impact she’s made.

British rock journalist Lucy O’Brien seeks to go beyond the fastidiously cultivated image and get a glimpse of the woman behind the veil. She uncovers some fascinating, often shocking, nuggets.

An illuminating study of a complex, iconic woman, covering her life, her relationships and what motivates her as a woman and an artist.

With detailed, surgical precision O'Brien bores to the heart of her subject, a heart that is, by turns, cold, impenetrable but forever beating.

The great chronicler of Hollywood in the late twentieth century turns his critical eye to the cinema and television of the twenty first. Essential reading

A bold, witty, and brilliantly argued analysis of the role pop culture has played in the rise of American extremism

Your book was . . . like a bag of pot, with me saying, 'I'm not gonna smoke.' But I was insatiable