Flirtation, seduction, betrayal - Nigel Farndale

Geoffrey Boycott, James Hewitt, Elton John, Clive James, Jeffrey Archer, Max Clifford, Des Lynam, Tony Parsons, Tim Rice, Michael Holroyd, Nigel Dempster, Michael Parkinson, Richard Dawkins, Seamus Heaney, Stephen Hawking, Steven Spielberg, the Dalai Lama and Henry Kissinger are some of Nigel Farndale's subjects in this first-ever collection of his interviews from the Sunday Telegraph Magazine.

'The three stages of a successful interview,' Andrew Billen of the Evening Standard has said, "are flirtation, seduction and betrayal... just as you don't know your subject until you teach it, as an interviewer you do not know your subject until you recreate him in print.' Perceptive, witty and dryly comic, Farndale's profiles of major and minor celebrities show them not as they would like to be seen but as they really are.