It has been a particularly good year for memoir: Edmund DE Waal, Luke Jennings, Tony Judt and Candia McWilliam have all written books that are better than most of the year's offerings in fiction.
Angelina Jolie raises six children with Brad Pitt, so she splashed out on an extra special gift for his 47th birthday tomorrow: a personalized family wedding ring priced at $380, 000.