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The Secret Life of War
Once it was simple to write about war. States or ideologies clashed; battles were fought between national armies or movements. But war has changed. War has become privatised by small...
The History of The Times (Volume 8)
This is volume eight of The History of The Times , a project begun in 1935 telling the story of the paper from its beginnings (as the Daily Universal Register...
Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood,
Explosive, controversial and ground-breaking - award-winning investigative journalist Nick Davies exposes the shocking corruption of today's media. Does 'fake news' really exist? Find out from the ultimate insider. After years...
The Bookshop: A History of Bookselling From the Dawn of Print to the
Bookshops are a comforting sight on our high streets, warm and welcoming spaces in which to browse, meet friends and occasionally buy books. They may feel timeless, yet their history...
The Chief: The Life of Lord Northcliffe Britain's Greatest Press Baron
'Superb...his pages fizz with character and colour' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'Scholarly and very readable' Andrew Lycett, Spectator 'Energetic and hugely entertaining' A.N.Wilson, TLS The definitive biography of Alfred Harmsworth,...
Interviewing Hitler: How George Ward Price Became the World's Most
George Ward Price became the leading journalist of the 1930s through a string of exclusive stories about Nazi Germany. He spent an hour alone with Hitler and Goering after the...
The Publishing Business: A Guide to Starting Out and Getting On
Are you considering a career in the world of publishing, or simply want to understand more about the industry? If so, The Publishing Business will take you through the essential...
Front Row: Anna Wintour
She's ambitious, driven, insecure, needy, a perfectionist - and she's considered the most powerful force in the more than $100 billion fashion industry. She's Anna Wintour, editor in chief of...
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...
Last Resort: A New York Times Editor's Pick
Named a Best Book of 2022 by the New Yorker Named a Top 10 Book of the Year by Slate Named a Best Book of the Year by Vulture A...
What Happens On Vacation: The enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy you
Two rivals. One holiday. A trip they will never forget. 'This book is really one of the best books I've read this year. This is a masterpiece! I loved it'...
Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2026: The best advice on how to write and
'This book is an excellent place to start. I love it and hope your copy becomes as dog-eared with overuse as many of my old ones did.' David Cohen This...
Truthteller: An Investigative Reporter's Journey Through the World of
There is a war on truth. And the liars are winning. There is an increasingly large number of weapons in the arsenal of the rich, the powerful and the elected...
Something Nasty in the Slushpile
Most publishers keep a "slushpile" - the stack of unsolicited manuscripts which contains a large percentage of preposterous or frightening book proposals, which might just conceal that one jewel of...
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...
Granta 170: Winners
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game. Any schoolchild can smell the rat in the adage. Everybody knows a game is not worth watching...
150 Years of Photojournalism: v. 1
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The Hulton Deutsch Collection (which became the Hulton Getty Picture Collection in 1996) is one of the world's most important repositories of photographs. A continual acquisition of various collections and...
When the Going Was Good: An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 IN THE INDEPENDENT, GQ, NEW STATESMAN, FINANCIAL TIMES AND BBC CULTURE When the Going Was Good is Graydon Carter's lively recounting of how he...
Fifty Years at the Front: Life of War Correspondent Frederick Palmer
In nearly half a century, Frederick Palmer reported on more different armies in action than any other journalist. Using Palmer's wartime notebooks and photographs, this book re-creates the journalist's journey...
News as it Happens: An Introduction to Journalism
We hunt it, gather it and consume it. We have a deep-seated urge to tell others about it. In today's 24/7 rolling news cycle, reporting is instantaneous with stories published...
Union Jack - A Scrapbook: British Forces' Newspapers, 1939-45
From 1939 to 1945, the fighting troops' own daily newspaper Union Jack, and others such as Parade and Crusader, told the story of the war in words and pictures to...
Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar: The Shocking True Story of the Notorious
VIRGINIA VALLEJO: Top Colombian television journalist, cover model and socialite PABLO ESCOBAR: Head of the Medellin cartel, the founder of the global cocaine industry and one of the most ambitious...
Jaywalking
With this second volume of memoirs, Jay Landesman continues the saga of an obscure cult figure who fought and clawed his way through life in America only to end up...
The World Through a Monocle: The "New Yorker" at Midcentury
"The New Yorker" is one of a number of general-interest magazines published for a sophisticated audience, but in the post-World War II era it occupied an almost unique niche of...
Bizarre Books
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Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its Enemies
*Winner of the European Award for Investigative And Judicial Journalism 2021* *Winner of the Premio Alessandro Leogrande Award for Investigative Journalism 2022* *Winner of the Premio Angelo Vassallo Award 2022*...
Live from the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Baghdad - 35 Years in the
Peter Arnett is an international correspondent for CNN. In this book he shares his experiences of more than 35 years inside the world's war zones. He has reported from Bangkok,...
The History of the "Times": v. 5: Struggles in War and Peace, 1939-66
The book titled The History of the "Times": v. 5: Struggles in War and Peace, 1939-66 by the author Iverach McDonald. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...
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...
Shelf Life: A Journey Through the Past, Present & Future of
Embark on a captivating journey through the ages with Shelf Life, a meticulously crafted exploration of bookselling and publishing spanning two millennia. This engaging narrative, designed for book lovers of...
Bookstores of the World
A magnificently illustrated global tour of contemporary bookstores, from Paris to Seoul. Even in these days of online commerce, the physical bookstore retains its fascination as a place to gather...
Unreliable Sources: How the Twentieth Century Was Reported
One of the greatest reporters of his day writes a brilliant and typically opinionated account of how the British press has reported key moments in our history. Through many decades...
Reporting America at War: An Oral History
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Whether dodging sniper fire, accompanying strategic bombing raids over enemy territory, challenging the Pentagon's version of events, or crossing the frontlines to interview figures at the heart of the conflict,...
Will This Do?: Memoirs
Born into the vastness of Pixton Park in Somerset, Auberon Waugh was drawn early into class warfare; he pretended he had seen evacuees and children of servants eat rat poison...
From Bees to Buzz Bombs: Robert Raymond's Boyhood-to-Blitz Memoirs
The book titled From Bees to Buzz Bombs: Robert Raymond's Boyhood-to-Blitz Memoirs by the author Robert Raymond. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
Nobody's Child
What's your name Where were you born What is your date of birth Simple questions that we are asked throughout our life - but what if you didn't know the...
Disturber of the Peace: Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent
The book titled Disturber of the Peace: Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent by the author Harrison E. Salisbury. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
Writing a Novel and Getting Published For Dummies
Includes advice on perfecting dialogue, plot, and endings Turn your bright idea into a brilliant novel With a published author advising you on how to write a great novel, and...
Senior Service: A Story of Riches, Revolution and Violent Death
Giangiacomo Feltrinelli was the most glamorous international publisher of his generation, yet he died violently, as a member of an ultra-left group attempting to blow up an electricity pylon. He...
My Life as Author and Editor
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The book titled My Life as Author and Editor by the author H. L. Mencken. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.
Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World
In A Splendor of Letters, Nicholas A. Basbanes continues the lively, richly anecdotal exploration of book people, places, and culture he began in 1995 with A Gentle Madness (a finalist...
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 ,...
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...
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...
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...