He may have been a cad, a bounder and a terrible snob, but that is the essential armoury of a diarist.

ECONOMIST: Non-fiction

The meat of the story is that dreamy singleton Bridget must choose between the dashing bounder, Daniel, played by Hugh Grant, and the seemingly crashingly dull Mark Darcy (a cheeky piece of casting with King of the Darcys, Colin Firth).

BBC: Bridget Jones's Diary: Press reviews