Thrown totally upon each other, would we now become bored and frustrated and annoy the hell out of each other? One of our simpler pleasures since we arrived in Ryde is taking a ride on a Southern Vectis double-decker bus.

I am now working on ‘Letters To Margaret’, involving letters to my wife Margaret telling her what has happened to the world, to me, to my family, and to my tortoise since she scarpered off in 2016. Three simple examples and, as somebody who spent the first 48 years of my life on the Island, believe me when I say there are very very many, especially in the chapter on the Island's background - he says a mid-morning snack is known by locals as "Nommix" (it should be "Nammet") - that tourists are known there as "Grokkits" (it should be "Grockells") - and that the local ferry company is "Wrightlink" (it is "Wightlink" of course). Love Island All Stars fans slam Liberty Poole for crying over Mitchel Taylor again despite pair's bitter split: 'They broke up like 10 times! One of the latest to become captivated by the place is the prolific author and veteran journalist Hunter Davies OBE, whose books most famously include the only authorised biography of The Beatles. During one day at the Apple offices, with their respective advisers, having yet more awful rows, John and Paul happened to go to the lavatory at the same time.With age, you have become set in your ways, until you believe that how you behave is normal and sensible and socially acceptable. Books poured forth: Margaret’s yearly novels and painstaking biographies; Hunter’s 100 books on everything from Lakeland to his year following Spurs and biographies of Columbus and Wordsworth.

Kate's long road to recovery: How Princess of Wales plans to 'work from bed' at Windsor and won't be doing. They were all traditional seaside attractions, like the pier itself, part of English social history and architecture for 150 years. He spent every summer in the Lake District for nearly half a century and his Lakeland: A Personal Journey was published by Head of Zeus in 2016. Also my girlfriend Margaret from Carlisle – we met when we were both at school – had got into Oxford, so I wanted to stay a student as long as possible.

I was hooked on eating Sainsbury's cooking Chorizo at 2am: BRYONY GORDON was addicted to drugs and alcohol. We had not exactly planned on being in a street in a town – but we are only three minutes from a three miles long sandy beach and all on the flat.

A wryly humorous memoir from Hunter Davies, as he falls in love again in his eighties and chronicles the first year of living with his new girlfriend in their cottage on the Isle of Wight. The oven started playing up, then the washing machine and the dishwasher – all of which we'd inherited. Prince Harry demands new Mirror hacking trial 'as soon as possible' unless his demands for compensation are.There were no pains so I thought it would pass, which it did, and I managed to walk back to where we were staying.

We have gone back to London more often than we had planned, to check on our respective houses, both of which have a tenant in them. The Beatles biog is the one everyone asks about, but I also did the Glory Game which was about a year with Spurs FC, and various books about the topography and history of the Lake District, including a biography of the fell-walker Alfred Wainwright. TikTok killer's evil mother groomed my boy: Father of 18-year-old whose lover, 46, plotted his murder with.

Over the years I’ve interviewed lots of famous people including Noel Coward, Somerset Maugham, most of our Prime Ministers, Prince Philip – and ghosted autobiographies of Gazza, Wayne Rooney and John Prescott. When I tell people I drink every lunchtime, as well as in the evening, they say: 'Goodness, I couldn't drink at lunch. Yes, as the group’s only authorized biographer, I spent 18 months with them when they were the peak of their popularity, and remained friends with them after they went their separate ways. You need not live on the Island and the books can be in the past or present, just as long as there is a strong element connected with the Isle of Wight. In her 1986 diary, she suddenly says, out of the blue, something that totally surprised me: 'I wonder when it was that Hunter became a hustler.