Tiffs, trysts and egos – inside the risky business of ghostwriting

Prince Harry, Britney Spears, Barbra Streisand, Richard E Grant: in 2023, the celebrity memoir mill appears to be working overtime, with eight of this week’s top 10 UK bestsellers written from the inner circles of Hollywood and Westminster. Or rather, written by the ghostwriters hired to shadow the stars. These elusive figures have gone from “dirty little secret” to, in the case of Prince Harry’s ghostwriter JR Moehringer, earning a top co-writing spot on the book’s cover and more than $1 millio