The Guardian Year 2001

This book draws together the finest writing in the Guardian from 2001. From eyewitness reports to obituaries, art criticism to sports reporting, diary stories to editorials, politics to travel, The Guardian Year, 2001 covers it all. With contributions from Nancy Banks-Smith, Catherine Bennett, Michael Billington, Julie Burchill, Simon Hoggart, A. C. Grayling, Frank Keating, Maggie O'Kane, Alan Rusbridger, Polly Toynbee, Francis Wheen, Gary Younge and Hugo Young. It is a perfect record of the year's biggest stories. The Bedside Years collates the very best writing from the Guardian from the last 50 years. It includes pieces by George Orwell, J. B. Priestley, Harold Macmillan, Simon Schama, Edward Said, Kinglsey Amis and many others and documents the major events of the last 50 years.