journalism
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A Long Drink of Cold Water
- £30.00
- Collection of Campbell's articles from Lilliput magazine
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All the Year Round: A weekly journal (Dec 1870 – May 1871)
- £100.00
- Charles Dickens started All The Year Round after a legal dispute with the publisher of his Household Words in 1859. It was in this weekly magazine that he first published A Tale of Two Cities. A week before he died in 1870, Dickens passed the editorship to his son, Charles…
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Blind Spot: When Journalists Don’t Get Religion
- £25.00
- Today understanding of religion is essential to understanding many major news stories. This book examines how the media frequently miss or misunderstand these stories because they do not take religion seriously, and how they misunderstand religion when they do take it seriously. To the extent that journalists do not grasp…
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For the Time Being: collected journalism
- £20.00
- Dirk Bogarde returned to London in the late 1980s, having lived in France for 20 years, and at that point was asked by the Daily Telegraph to review a clutch of books. There followed eight years of exceptional writings that are collected for the first time in this book: pieces…
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Geldof in Africa
- £35.00
- Bob Geldof celebrates the glories of Africa and its diverse peoples in a stunningly illustrated book tracking his journey across the continent. Provocative, informative, funny, poignant and endlessly entertaining, Geldof supplies his own unique take on this extraordinary land. Travelling through Ghana, Benin, Mall, D. R Congo, Uganda, Ethiopa, Tanzania…
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How to Become a Musical Critic: previously uncollected writings
- £25.00
- An anthology of GBS's music criticism previously uncompiled.
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I Was Told To Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad
- £9.00
- I was told to come alone. I was not to carry any identification, and would have to leave my cell phone, audio recorder, watch, and purse at my hotel . . . For her whole life, Souad Mekhennet, a reporter for the Washington Post who was born and educated in…
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In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
- £35.00
- The chilling true crime 'non-fiction novel' that made Truman Capote's name, In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill and powerfully evocative narrative.
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Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War
- £25.00
- Read this prize-winning historianÕs ÒimmersiveÓ ( New York Times) account of the famous writers who, in the run-up to World War II, took on dictators and rewrote the rules of modern journalism. They were an astonishing group: glamorous, gutsy, and irreverent to the bone. As cub reporters in the 1920s,…
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Orwell: the New Life
- £30.00
- Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two dystopian masterpieces, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) have together sold over 40 million copies. Even now, he continues to exert a decisive influence on our…
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Putin Country, a journey into the real Russia
- £12.00
- More than twenty years ago, the longtime NPR correspondent Anne Garrels began to visit the region of Chelyabinsk, an aging military-industrial center a thousand miles east of Moscow that is home to the Russian nuclear program. Her goal was to chart the social and political aftershocks of the USSR's collapse.…
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Roundabout Papers, from “The Cornhill Magazine”
- £45.00
- Three years before he died, Thackeray took on the editorship of The Cornhill Magazine in 1860, despite far prefering the job of writing pieces for his 'Roundabout Papers' column. These were published in this anthology soon after his death in 1863. This is the 1st edition, with occasional illustrations by…
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Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories
- £18.00
- The urgent, explosive story of RussiaÕs espionage efforts against the West from the Cold War to the present Ð including their interference in the 2016 presidential election. Like a scene from a le Carre novel or the TV drama The Americans, in the summer of 2010 a group of Russian…
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Salaam Brick Lane: A Year in the New East End
- £20.00
- After ten years living abroad, Tarquin Hall wanted to return to his native London. Lured by his nostalgia for a leafy suburban childhood spent in south-west London, he returned with his Indian-born, American fiance in tow. But, priced out of the housing market, they found themselves living not in a…
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Snapshots: Encounters with Twentieth-Century Legends (SIGNED)
- £65.00
- Perhaps best known today for his English lyrics for the first West End Production of Les Miserables, but he was a prolific writer. In his diverse career as a journalist and wordsmith, Herbert Kretzmer has interviewed and profiled some of the twentieth century's greatest figures in theatre, literature, show business…
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A Long Drink of Cold Water
- £30.00
- Collection of Campbell's articles from Lilliput magazine
- Add to basket
-
All the Year Round: A weekly journal (Dec 1870 – May 1871)
- £100.00
- Charles Dickens started All The Year Round after a legal dispute with the publisher of his Household Words in 1859. It was in this weekly magazine that he first published A Tale of Two Cities. A week before he died in 1870, Dickens passed the editorship to his son, Charles…
- Add to basket
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Blind Spot: When Journalists Don’t Get Religion
- £25.00
- Today understanding of religion is essential to understanding many major news stories. This book examines how the media frequently miss or misunderstand these stories because they do not take religion seriously, and how they misunderstand religion when they do take it seriously. To the extent that journalists do not grasp…
- Add to basket
-
For the Time Being: collected journalism
- £20.00
- Dirk Bogarde returned to London in the late 1980s, having lived in France for 20 years, and at that point was asked by the Daily Telegraph to review a clutch of books. There followed eight years of exceptional writings that are collected for the first time in this book: pieces…
- Add to basket
-
Geldof in Africa
- £35.00
- Bob Geldof celebrates the glories of Africa and its diverse peoples in a stunningly illustrated book tracking his journey across the continent. Provocative, informative, funny, poignant and endlessly entertaining, Geldof supplies his own unique take on this extraordinary land. Travelling through Ghana, Benin, Mall, D. R Congo, Uganda, Ethiopa, Tanzania…
- Add to basket
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How to Become a Musical Critic: previously uncollected writings
- £25.00
- An anthology of GBS's music criticism previously uncompiled.
- Add to basket
-
I Was Told To Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad
- £9.00
- I was told to come alone. I was not to carry any identification, and would have to leave my cell phone, audio recorder, watch, and purse at my hotel . . . For her whole life, Souad Mekhennet, a reporter for the Washington Post who was born and educated in…
- Add to basket
-
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
- £35.00
- The chilling true crime 'non-fiction novel' that made Truman Capote's name, In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill and powerfully evocative narrative.
- Add to basket
-
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War
- £25.00
- Read this prize-winning historianÕs ÒimmersiveÓ ( New York Times) account of the famous writers who, in the run-up to World War II, took on dictators and rewrote the rules of modern journalism. They were an astonishing group: glamorous, gutsy, and irreverent to the bone. As cub reporters in the 1920s,…
- Add to basket
-
Orwell: the New Life
- £30.00
- Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two dystopian masterpieces, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) have together sold over 40 million copies. Even now, he continues to exert a decisive influence on our…
- Add to basket
-
Putin Country, a journey into the real Russia
- £12.00
- More than twenty years ago, the longtime NPR correspondent Anne Garrels began to visit the region of Chelyabinsk, an aging military-industrial center a thousand miles east of Moscow that is home to the Russian nuclear program. Her goal was to chart the social and political aftershocks of the USSR's collapse.…
- Add to basket
-
Roundabout Papers, from “The Cornhill Magazine”
- £45.00
- Three years before he died, Thackeray took on the editorship of The Cornhill Magazine in 1860, despite far prefering the job of writing pieces for his 'Roundabout Papers' column. These were published in this anthology soon after his death in 1863. This is the 1st edition, with occasional illustrations by…
- Add to basket
-
Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories
- £18.00
- The urgent, explosive story of RussiaÕs espionage efforts against the West from the Cold War to the present Ð including their interference in the 2016 presidential election. Like a scene from a le Carre novel or the TV drama The Americans, in the summer of 2010 a group of Russian…
- Add to basket
-
Salaam Brick Lane: A Year in the New East End
- £20.00
- After ten years living abroad, Tarquin Hall wanted to return to his native London. Lured by his nostalgia for a leafy suburban childhood spent in south-west London, he returned with his Indian-born, American fiance in tow. But, priced out of the housing market, they found themselves living not in a…
- Add to basket
-
Snapshots: Encounters with Twentieth-Century Legends (SIGNED)
- £65.00
- Perhaps best known today for his English lyrics for the first West End Production of Les Miserables, but he was a prolific writer. In his diverse career as a journalist and wordsmith, Herbert Kretzmer has interviewed and profiled some of the twentieth century's greatest figures in theatre, literature, show business…
- Add to basket