Anyone who saw The September Issue documentary about American Vogue will have fallen in love with the magazine’s creative director Grace Coddington. Intelligent and passionate, her much-anticipated memoir (out in hardback on 20 November) recounts her 40 years at the top of the fashion industry, from her early days as a model being photographed by David Bailey to her iconic creative photoshoots. It’s of obvious interest to fash-heads but the buzz suggests the book deserves a much wider audience. It’s on my Christmas list for starters!