xmas quiz gk help!!!!!!

[twiglet3]

Val hennessey wrote, about a novel:

A republican Prime Minister has banished the Royal Family to an exclusion zone where thy live in ex council houses, cheek by jowl with outcasts such as criminals, agitators, drug adicts and the morbidly obese'. Whose novel:

Will Self
Ann Widdecombe
Sue Townshend

2)

Ivo Dawney wrote, about a novel:

Is the place that dare not speak its name. thjsoe who went there are careful not to use the BLANK-letter word. Instead, they tactfully talk anout 'school'. An old Boy's book about which institution?

Eton
Harrow
Wormwood Scrubs

3)

Neil Norman, wrote about a novel:

This book gives me the creeps. rarely have I encountered a biography whose author is so lubriciously enslaved to his subject...this is an extended love letter from a sixtysomething adolescent to an untouchable movie star. In mitigation he then describes the author as 'one of the greatest of film historians and observers'. Who was the subject of the book?

Marilyn Monroe
carlett Johansson
Nicole Kidman

4)

Victoria Moore. wrote of a novel:

Surprisingly, girls barely get a look in-"I was not good with the oppossite sex"-save for an unchivalrous told encounter with a girl with "brisly thighs". Which lovable celebrity chef's memoir?

Marco pierre White
Gordon Ramsay
Anthony Worrla Thompson

thanx in advance

[shaneystar2]

Sue Townshend for the first one ..the book is The Queen and I