completely given up alcohol. Drug use Mensch has also commented, on BBC TV's Question Time during a debate on calls to decriminalise hard drugs, about taking hard drugs in her twenties, and subsequently told the press, in 2012: It is something that I regret incredibly, that, in my youth, I messed with my brain. I said 'we all do stupid things when we are young'. It's had long-term mental health effects on me. My mind is messed up after taking hard drugs. Bibliography Novels Writing as Louise Bagshawe: Career Girls (1995) The Movie (1996) aka Triple Feature Tall Poppies (1997) Venus Envy (1998) A Kept Woman (2000) aka For All the Wrong Reasons When She Was Bad... (2001) The Devil You Know (2003) Monday's Child (2004) aka The Go–To Girl Tuesday's Child (2005) Sparkles (2006) Glamour (2007) Glitz (2008) Passion (2009) Desire (2010) Destiny (2011) Writing as Louise Mensch: Beauty (2014) Career Game (2015) Anthology Five Romantic Reads (2005; with Donna Hay, Laura Wolf, Jane Elizabeth Varley and Stella Chaplin) References External links Articles authored as Louise Bagshawe at Journalisted 1971 births 20th-century British novelists 21st-century British novelists 20th-century British women writers 21st-century British women writers 20th-century Roman Catholics 21st-century Roman Catholics 21st-century British women politicians Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Anti-Russian sentiment British chick lit writers British conspiracy theorists Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies English bloggers English expatriates in the United States English feminists English Roman Catholics Fake news Female critics of feminism Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies Living people People associated with the News International phone hacking scandal People educated at Beechwood Sacred Heart School People educated at Woldingham School Roman Catholic writers The Sun (United Kingdom) people The Times people UK MPs 2010–2015 American women bloggers American bloggers Catholic feminists Writers from London 21st-century American women