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Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2022
Description
David Dimbleby has interviewed prime ministers and presidents, made award-winning documentaries, chaired Question Time for 25 years and anchored the BBC's live coverage of historic national and world events. 'Keep Talking' is David's wry look at his own extraordinary career and the people, events and controversies he has encountered along the way.
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Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
The only thing Abi ever wanted was a proper family. So when she falls pregnant by an Australian exchange student in London, she cannot pack up her old life in Croydon fast enough, to start all over in Sydney and make her own family. It is not until she arrives, with three-week-old Jude in tow, that Abi realises Stu is not quite ready to be a father after all. And he is the only person she knows in this hot, dazzling, confusing city, where the job...
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2023
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As a Bolton teenager with a paper round Clive Myrie read all the newspapers he delivered from cover to cover, and dreamed of becoming a journalist. Thirty years on, he's reported from more than ninety countries for the BBC. In this deeply personal memoir, he reflects on how being black has affected his perspective on the myriad issues he's encountered in reporting some of the biggest stories of our time. Clive's empathy for the individual caught up...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Sport
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Don Revie was a player and manager who single-handedly changed the face of English football but left behind a legacy shrouded in allegations of corruption and dishonesty. Based on exclusive interviews, this is the first biography to examine in depth the secrets of Revie's life. It also reveals how today's football owes so much to Revie. He can finally take his rightful place among the greats of the game.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2024
Description
In January 2023, Johann Hari started to inject himself once a week with Ozempic, one of the new drugs that produces significant weight loss. He wasn't alone - some predictions suggest that in a few years, one in four of the British population will be taking these drugs. While around 80 per cent of diets fail, someone taking one of the new drugs is likely to lose up to a quarter of their body weight in six months. To the drugs' defenders, this is a...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Sport
Pub. Date
2022
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Although best known as ITV's commentator on the Tour de France, Ned Boulting has spent most of his professional life covering football. Follow Ned's journey from football supporter to reporter - from criss-crossing the country in a banger of a car hoping for a word or two from the latest big signing, to the glamour of the Champions League. Ned really has been there, done that, and got the Sky Sports jacket to prove it. 'Square Peg, Round Ball' is...
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Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Description
The men I have worked with and the staff I've worked alongside over the last ten years in prison have taught me strength, compassion, courage, and fundamentally, the need to talk, the need to share and the need to tell these stories. These are the stories of lives lived, lost and taken, behind walls so high we can pretend they hide another world entirely. But at what cost? 'Behind These Doors' is a provocative, insightful and illuminating interrogation...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003
Description
In a moving narrative, Poole describes how he became 'embedded' in a US tank and infantry company known as the Black Knights - the first unit in the Third Infantry Division to engage in combat when, 12 hours after crossing the Kuwait border, it helped seize an airfield in the outskirts of Nasiriyah.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Description
After the Russian suspects in the Salisbury poisoning appeared on television, it took just under two weeks for the real identity of one of them to be revealed. This huge investigative coup wasn't pulled off by an intelligence organisation or a traditional news outlet. Instead it was made by Bellingcat, the open-source investigative unit that is redefining the way we think about news, politics and the digital future. 'We Are Bellingcat' tells the story...