Star Turns

During a long Fleet Street career Tim Walker met and interviewed many of the world’s most famous actors and entertainers but, it isn’t just the names of his subjects that glitter — although they are impressive enough — it is the insights, the humour, and the exquisite style of these pieces that makes them jump off the page. Walker does more than sprinkle a little star dust into our lives. Time and again he crystallizes what others might have sensed but not articulated, casting light into previously unseen corners of the lives we thought we knew. Here you have 71 of the world’s most celebrated people captured by a master craftsman who analyses and defines, but is never overawed. You will, at turns, be entertained, enlightened, surprised and occasionally shocked but, best of all, repeatedly made to laugh aloud at the wit, passion, talent and foibles of those who have entertained us for most of our lives.

Author Biography

Tim Walker is an author, playwright, broadcaster and British Press Award-winning journalist. His encounters with the stars in this book took place over a period of almost forty years since his days on the Evening Argus in Brighton to his current role at The New European. In the intervening years, he worked in staff positions at The Observer, the Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph. Walker’s first play, Bloody Difficult Women — opening at London’s Riverside Studios in March 2022 — focuses on Gina Miller’s court case against Theresa May’s government.