Helen Brown
The Telegraph
United Kingdom
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Past articles by Helen:
Inside Our Autistic Minds, review: a heart-warming celebration with vital life lessons for us all
Chris Packham's illuminating series does an excellent job of showing the rich inner worlds of autistic people → Read More
Hollie McNish busts taboos about puberty, periods and breastfeeding in the brilliant Slug
With wicked one-liners, poet Hollie McNish is on a mission to stop women hating their bodies → Read More
Bro! This is Beowulf as you've never read it before
Move over, Tolkien and Heaney. This translation of Beowulf into muscular urban slang is electric → Read More
Inferno by Catherine Cho, review: a terrifying experience of post-partum psychosis
What if you thought your son was the devil? A troubling memoir of a mother’s post-partum psychosis – and the childhood trauma behind it → Read More
Folio Prize winner Valeria Luiselli on the Mexican border's lost children haunting her explosive new novel
Valeria Luiselli has won the 2020 Rathbones Folio Prize her for novel Lost Children Archive. → Read More
What it's really like to live with Greta Thunberg
Helen Brown reviews Our House Is on Fire by by Malena and Beata Ernman with Svante and Greta Thunberg → Read More
Doctor Who's Tom Baker on tricking priests, Jodie Whittaker, and smoking with Francis Bacon
An early brush with a priest set Tom Baker on the road to ‘Doctor Who’ – via a tall tale or two, finds Helen Brown → Read More
Rock ’n’ roll reading: the best books to buy music fans for Christmas
Bob Dylan’s bad at charades, TV cops make Patti Smith cry – what Helen Brown learnt from 2019’s top music books. → Read More
The child prodigy who wrote a bestseller – then disappeared
In a little brown shingled cottage on one of the foothills of Mount Varcrobis, there lived with her father and mother, Mr and Mrs Eigleen, a little girl named Eepersip. → Read More
Neneh Cherry interview: 'Shoot me if you see me do an 80s tour'
Neneh Cherry is laughing at my dad. → Read More
Marianne review - Gallic Goth gore with a bloody, female twist
It’s been almost half a decade since William Blatty published The Exorcist (1971) and — according to ancient manuscripts excavated from deep beneath Netflix HQ — it is time for the subject of demonic possession to rise again. → Read More
Sheryl Crow interview: ‘Women get more meaningful with age’
Can Sheryl Crow’s all-star new album inspire the next generation of girls to pick up guitars? → Read More
Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls review: the One Day author returns with a pitch-perfect romance
First love,” says the heroine of David Nicholls’ fifth novel, is like “a stupid pop song that you hear and you think, well this is all I will ever want to listen to, it’s got everything. → Read More
Kylie Minogue’s 20 best songs: ranked and rated
The news that Kylie Minogue will play the legend slot at this year’s Glastonbury festival gave some people a jolt. → Read More
Mama’s Last Hug by Frans de Waal, review: the gentle truth about alpha males, chimps and human alike
In 1995, the Republican Speaker Newt Gingrich recommended Frans de Waal’s book Chimpanzee Politics to young congressmen trying to get ahead. → Read More
Joan Wasser interview: ‘Cool? I feel like I’m the polar opposite’
Bouncing from her unmade bed in a blur of red leather and smudged mascara, Joan Wasser instantly strikes me as the coolest person I have ever met. → Read More
The Golden Record: the bizarre story behind Nasa's mixtape for aliens
Helen Brown reviews The Vinyl Frontier by Jonathan Scott → Read More
Zog, review: a hypnotising, inspiring tale for all the family
It has been scheduling genius by the BBC to broadcast their soothing, annual adaptations of Julia Donaldson’s picture books in the early evening on Christmas Day: → Read More
The Truth About the Menopause, review: eroding the shame and secrecy of the menopause
Almost 30 years after Germaine Greer published The Change – hoping to bring the struggles of menopausal women into mainstream conversation – Mariella Frostrup proved that the topic still causes people to wince, squirm and freeze when she accosted them on the streets of Britain. → Read More
Christmas books 2018: music – sex and drugs and beans on toast
Backstage anecdotes ranged from mythic to mundane – while Lily Allen set the record straight, says Helen Brown → Read More