“... which she collaged pictures of the actress, along with handwritten transcriptions from the Book of Matthew. (‘The stars she admired’, Cohen writes, invariably ‘condensed divinity and celebrity’.) Of the back-up goddess – Deputy Goddess Dietrich – there are likewise striking mementos, including a single yellow sock and a lipstick-smeared scarf, all ...”

“... late before trying to get out of his flat. ‘We used to go “totting” together,’ his son, Lee, said. ‘You know, scrap iron. He had a big horse called Lady and a little Shetland’ – he had stabled them under the Westway – and was a friend of Steven Power, the man on the 15th floor with the bull terriers. Anthony was a rogue; he’d been ...”