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The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place
FROM BRITAIN'S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER WINNER OF THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: The Times/Sunday Times , Financial Times , Spectator ,...
The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of
In The Book , Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue, and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on...
The Time of Their Lives: The Golden Age of Great American Book
In his history of mid-century publishing, heads of houses like Alfred Knopf, Bennett Cerf of Random House, Cass Canfield of Harper's, the Doubleday fathers and sons, and the Thornhills of...
Cryptic: From Voynich to the Angel Diaries, the Story of the World's
An absorbing history of Europe's nine most puzzling texts, including the biggest mystery of all: the Voynich Manuscript Books can change the world. They can influence, entertain, transport, and enlighten....
Kurt Wolff: A Portrait in Essays and Letters
Kurt Wolff (1887-1963) was a singular presence in the literary world of the twentieth century, a cultural force shaping modern literature itself and pioneering significant changes in publishing. During an...
A Final Grain of Truth: My Autobiography
Jack Webster has had a lifetime of adventure as a respected and highly-commended journalist, meeting the rich and famous and experiencing what the world has to offer. From his upbringing...
Bookstore Girls
Can two very different women put aside their differences to save the bookstore they love? The Japanese bestseller that kicked off a seven-book series - adapted for TV and 200,000...
We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'John le Carre demystified the intelligence services; Higgins has demystified intelligence gathering itself' Financial Times 'Uplifting . . . Riveting . . . What will fire...
Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship
An insightful exploration that unveils the lesser-known dimensions of this legendary writer and her legacy, revealing the cultural icon's profound impact as a visionary editor who helped define an important...
Broadcast Newswriting: The RTNDA Reference Guide
This book is filled with tips about words. No matter where you look you'll find examples of what to do and what to avoid. Nobody made up these examples. Nobody...
Stick It Up Your Punter!: The Uncut Story Of The Sun Newspaper
The SUN is more than a newspaper. It is, in its own words, a phenomenon - the biggest-selling daily paper in the English language, fascinating 12 million readers and making...
The Surge: The Race Against the Most Destructive Force in Nature
An Observer 'book to look out for' in 2026 A New Scientist pick for 2026 The Surge is a timely, gripping account of humanity's battle against rising waters - and...
Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom as an Act of Resistance
'Responsible but not beholden; substantial as well as symbolic; sympathetic but not pandering; political but not proscriptive: there's not an awful lot of wiggle room there, but it's the space...
Copy Righter: Become a Master Wordsmith and Harness the Copywriting
An invaluable, modern guide to great copywriting, Copy. Righter. shows you how to write in a way that is brand-literate, media-savvy, utterly engaging...and irresistibly persuasive. It will show you how...
Long Life: Memoirs
Nigel Nicolson grew up in the world of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsberries, one of three sons of the uncoventional parents, MP Harold Nicolson and his author and bi-sexual wife,...
Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison-Solitary Confinement, a
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The Inspiration for the New Podcast Featuring Jason Rezaian. "544 Days" is a Spotify original podcast, produced by Gimlet, Crooked Media and A24. The dramatic memoir of the journalist who...
The Good Ship Venus: Erotic Voyage of Maurice Girodias and the Olympia
The book titled The Good Ship Venus: Erotic Voyage of Maurice Girodias and the Olympia by the author John De St. Jorre. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us...
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
A detailed and compelling political study of how elite forces shape mass media The classic political study of how elite forces shape mass media. Edward S Herman and Noam Chomsky...
A New York Life: Of Friends and Others
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The book titled A New York Life: Of Friends and Others by the author Brendan Gill. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
A Rebel in Defense of Tradition: Life and Politics of Dwight Macdonald
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This biography is a tale of an upper-middle-class white male who managed to jettison the prejudices and provincialism of his class, and become one of the most penetrating critics of...
Man from Babel
The autobiography of Eugene Jolas, available for the first time nearly half a century after his death in 1952, is the story of a man who, as the editor of...
Design and Practice for Printed Textiles
Design and Practice for Printed Textiles covers the process of textile design from conception of an idea to production of printed fabric. It describes what happens in industry and outlines...
Fortunate Circumstances
The sole anchorman of ITN's News at Ten describes his rise from Radio Trinidad, via the BBC World Service, to his current position as international journalist and the guiding hand...
Beaverbrook: A Life
Lord Beaverbrook, 1879-1964, was a cabinet minister during World War II. As a minister, Fleet Street press baron and compulsive manipulator, he was both admired and hated. His friends ranged...
Waiting for the Monsoon
By the New York Times 's legendary war correspondent, written while battling terminal brain cancer: a life-affirming memoir of high adventure, deep wisdom, and finding true happiness amid the unlikeliest...
A Bookshop of One's Own: How a group of women set out to change the
Shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards, Christopher Bland Prize and The People's Book Prize A Waterstones Best Memoir of 2024 An Independent and Stylist Best Non-Fiction Book The captivating true...
The Politics of War Reporting: Authority, Authenticity and Morality
The politics of war reporting: Authority, authenticity and morality challenges the assumptions that reporters and their audiences have about the way the journalistic trade operates and how it sees the...
The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. Mccormick 1880-1955
For most of his varied and colorful career, Colonel Robert R. McCormick was the self-proclaimed emperor of "Chicagoland," a Middle America of his own imagination, forever at odds with the...
The Business of Books: How the International Conglomerates Took Over
Post-war American publishing has been ruthlessly transformed since Andre Schiffrin joined its ranks in 1956. Gone is a plethora of small but prestigious houses that often put ideas before profit...
Cowboys and Indies
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Cowboys and Indies is the definitive record business bible, chronicling the pioneers who set the stylus on the most important labels and musical discoveries of the last century. The narrative...
Breaking News
During three decades covering wars, revolutions, and natural disasters, Martin Fletcher worked his way from news agency cameraman to Tel Aviv bureau chief for NBC News. His extraordinary, real-life adventure...
Packaging Prototypes: v. 1
Packaging Prototypes is the first book to offer designers, and those who commission design, a work which is both a source of inspiration and an invaluable reference tool. It aims...
Once While Travelling: The Lonely Planet Story
Tony and Maureen Wheeler established Lonely Planet Publications in the basement of a terrace house in Sydney in 1973, to self-publish a modest travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap....
We Interrupt This Broadcast
Features the great news stories which have broken in upon broadcasting throughout the BBC's prestigious 75-year history. Events include the moon landing, the deaths of Kennedy and Diana, the Suez...
The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir
It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...
100 Diaries that Chronicled World Events
Oscar Wilde once wrote "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train." This book is your opportunity to discover a compendium...
Media Tarts Revised and Updated Edition
A powerful insight into how the media treats female politicians - now revised and updated with a new foreword by Annabel Crabb - from one of our foremost journalists and...
Scribe: My Life in Sports
Ever since he joined the sports department of the Boston Globe in 1968, sports enthusiasts have been blessed with the writing and reporting of Bob Ryan. Tony Kornheiser calls him...
100 Diaries that Chronicled World Events
Oscar Wilde once wrote "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train." This book is your opportunity to discover a compendium...
A Mighty Heart: the Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl
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In "A Mighty Heart," an astonishingly courageous woman tells the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband's life and death. For five weeks the world watched and worried about Danny...
The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992: From the author of the Sunday
'Indiscreet, brilliantly observed, frequently hilarious' Evening Standard 'Hang on - it's a wild ride' Meryl Streep It's 1983. A young Englishwoman arrives in Manhattan on a mission. Summoned in the...
My Turn to Make the Tea: 'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of
INTRODUCED BY LISSA EVANS 'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens. She's beady eyed, big hearted and blissfully funny' NINA STIBBE 'Wherever her eye falls, it...
Panic as Man Burns Crumpets: The Vanishing World of the Local
WINNER OF THE LAKELAND BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2022 'A hilarious and depressing account of the shrivelling of local journalism' GRAHAM ROBB, Spectator Books of the Year 'For those...
Sick Money: The Truth About the Global Pharmaceutical Industry
The pharmaceutical industry is broken. From the American hedge fund manager who put the price of an AIDS pill up from $13.50 to $750 overnight to the children's cancer drugs...
News Cowboys: Behind the scenes of international breaking news,
News cowboys - it was the nickname the reporters and camerapeople at Seven Network's Los Angeles bureau jokingly gave themselves as they headed off on assignments, not knowing what to...
News Cowboys: Behind the scenes of international breaking news,
News cowboys - it was the nickname the reporters and camerapeople at Seven Network's Los Angeles bureau jokingly gave themselves as they headed off on assignments, not knowing what to...