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'This second collection of his newspaper pieces is a reminder of
just how good they were: sharp and playful, surreal and thoughtful,
and occasionally...rather moving' New Statesman Hilarious,
heartbreaking, provocative and affecting - Howard Jacobson's
irresistible journalism reveals the Man Booker Prize-winning
novelist in all his humanity. From the tiniest absurdities to the
most universal joys and desolations, Jacobson writes with a
thunder, passion and wit unmatched. Just as did his previous
volume, Whatever It Is I Don't Like It, this glorious,
unputdownable collection will delight, entertain, challenge and
move.
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* PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY * Clarkson's Back - and he's really had
it this time. From his first job as a travelling sales rep selling
Paddington Bears to his latest incarnation as gentleman farmer,
Jeremy Clarkson's love of cars has seen him through some deeply
trying times. And in a world so persistently infuriating there's
sometimes nothing for it but to throw up your hands and ride
full-throttle over the speed-bumps. But as Jeremy raced through
there was plenty to ponder along the way, including: * Why nothing
good has ever been achieved in a meeting * The side effects of
muesli * How to navigate London when every single road is being dug
up at once * Why we are forced to share the planet with people who
read online reviews of dishwashers * And what, exactly, is the
point of a driverless car? It's testing stuff, but happily Jeremy's
not quite reached the end of his tether yet. Fuelled by hi-octane
enthusiasm and irrepressible curiosity, he's put his foot down
again. Seatbelts on ...
Disaffected examines the effects of antisedition law on the
overlapping public spheres of India and Britain under empire. After
1857, the British government began censoring the press in India,
culminating in 1870 with the passage of Section 124a, a law that
used the term "disaffection" to target the emotional tenor of
writing deemed threatening to imperial rule. As a result, Tanya
Agathocleous shows, Indian journalists adopted modes of writing
that appeared to mimic properly British styles of prose even as
they wrote against empire. Agathocleous argues that Section 124a,
which is still used to quell political dissent in present-day
India, both irrevocably shaped conversations and critiques in the
colonial public sphere and continues to influence anticolonialism
and postcolonial relationships between the state and the public.
Disaffected draws out the coercive and emotional subtexts of law,
literature, and cultural relationships, demonstrating how the
criminalization of political alienation and dissent has shaped
literary form and the political imagination.
Read the definitive essay collection from the Sunday Times
bestselling author of The Adversary, dubbed 'France's greatest
writer of non-fiction' (New York Times) 'The most exciting living
writer' Karl Ove Knausgaard Over the course of his career, Emmanuel
Carrere has reinvented non-fiction writing. In a search for truth
in all its guises, he dispenses with the rules of genre. For him,
no form is out of reach: theology, historiography, reportage and
memoir - among many others - are fused under the pressure of an
inimitable combination of passion, curiosity and intellect that has
made Carrere one of our most distinctive and important literary
voices today. 97,196 Words introduces Carrere's shorter work to an
English-language audience. Featuring more than thirty extraordinary
texts written over an illustrious twenty-five-year period of
Carrere's creative life, the book shows a remarkable mind at work.
Spanning continents, histories, and personal relationships, 97,196
Words considers the divides between truth, reality and our shared
humanity, exploring remarkable events and eccentric lives,
including Carrere's own. * A New York Times Notable Book *
A self-proclaimed 'myth buster by trade', over her long-ranging
career as a journalist and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich
has delved with devastating wit and insight into the social and
political fabric of America. Had I Known gathers together
Ehrenreich's most significant articles and excerpts from the last
four decades - some of which became the starting point for her
bestselling books - from her award-winning article 'Welcome to
Cancerland', published shortly after she was diagnosed with breast
cancer, to her groundbreaking investigative journalism in 'Nickel
and Dimed', which explored living in America on the minimum wage.
Issues she identified as far back as the 80s and 90s such as work
poverty, rising inequality, the gender divide and medicalised
health care, are top of the social and political agenda today.
Written with remarkable tenderness, humour and incisiveness,
Ehrenreich's describes an America of struggle, inequality, racial
bias and injustice. Her extraordinarily prescient and relevant
perspective announces her as one of most significant thinkers of
our day.
A TLS and a Prospect Book of the Year A revelatory, explosive new
analysis of the military today. Over the first two decades of the
twenty-first century, Britain has changed enormously. During this
time, the British Army fought two campaigns, in Iraq and
Afghanistan, at considerable financial and human cost. Yet neither
war achieved its objectives. This book questions why, and provides
challenging but necessary answers. Composed from assiduous
documentary research, field reportage, and hundreds of interviews
with many soldiers and officers who served, as well as the
politicians who directed them, the allies who accompanied them, and
the family members who loved and - on occasion - lost them, it is a
strikingly rich, nuanced portrait of one of our pivotal national
institutions in a time of great stress. Award-winning journalist
Simon Akam, who spent a year in the army when he was 18, returned a
decade later to see how the institution had changed. His book
examines the relevance of the armed forces today - their social,
economic, political, and cultural role. This is as much a book
about Britain, and about the politics of failure, as it is about
the military.
In this follow-up to their landmark first book, Deric Henderson and
Ivan Little have gathered new stories from seventy journalists who
have worked in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. These
contributors write powerfully about the victims they have never
forgotten, the events that have never left them, and the lasting
impact of working through those terrible years. Reporting the
Troubles 2, which includes contributions from a new generation of
journalists, who came up in the years leading to the Good Friday
Agreement, provides a compelling narrative of the last fifty years,
and covers many of the key events in Northern Ireland's troubled
history, from Bloody Sunday in 1972 to the inquest into the
Ballymurphy Massacre in 2021. Grounded in the passionate belief
that good journalism and good journalists make a difference,
Reporting the Troubles 2 is a profoundly moving act of remembrance
and testimony. 'I am sometimes asked to identify the most important
story that I dealt with while I was editor of the Irish Times ... I
answer that the most important story was not published in a single
day but over years. And it was not put together by any one
journalist but by a whole cohort of reporters, photographers,
feature writers and editors ... For the most part they just got
by-lines and the satisfaction of knowing that what they were doing
was important, that the story had to be told, day by day, hour by
hour. And that telling it could make a difference. It is difficult
to imagine that there could ever have been a peace process without
that.' CONOR BRADY, former editor, Irish Times Contributions from -
Gordon Adair, Don Anderson, Ciaran Barnes, Colin Bateman, Jilly
Beattie, Charlie Bird, David Blevins, Declan Bogue, Conor Brady,
Stephen Breen, Eugene Campbell, Peter Cardwell, Mark Carruthers,
Niall Carson, Paddy Clancy, Simon Cole, Liam Collins, Mark Davey,
Donna Deeney, Michael Denieffe, Patricia Devlin, Michael Donnelly,
Roisin Duffy, Gavin Esler, Michael Fisher, Jim Flanagan, Mike
Gaston, Gareth Gordon, Jim Gracey, Paul Harris, Deric Henderson,
Mark Hennessy, Gary Honeyford, Paul Johnson, Fergal Keane, Vincent
Kearney, Gerry Kelly, Will Leitch, Ivan Little, Robin Livingstone,
David Lynas, Darragh MacIntyre, Michael Macmillan, Kevin Magee,
Stanley Matchett, Don McAleer, Roisin McAuley, Barry McCaffrey,
Jonny McCambridge, Freya McClements, Sir Trevor McDonald, Lindy
McDowell, Mark McFadden, Hugh McGrattan, Seamus McKee, Fearghal
McKinney, Allison Morris, Rod Nawn, Malachi O'Doherty, Maggie
O'Kane, Mike Parry, Lance Price, Colin Randall, Paul Reynolds,
Maggie Taggart, Eric Villiers, John Ware, Nicholas Watt, Johnny
Watterson, David Young.
As Fenella Wilson points out in her Introduction to this collection
of Neil Munro's writings on war, the theme is represented in each
aspect of his career as a writer - in his fiction, journalism and
poetry. A number of the short stories here, including two Para
Handy tales, were published Munro's lifetime, as was his
introduction to Fred Farrell's 1920 The 51st Division War Sketches,
and some of the Poems. What has not previously 'seen the light of
day' since The Great War are the reports which Munro wrote as a war
correspondent, as a civilian and later in uniform, in 1914, 1917
and 1918. They are vivid, personal, accounts from the Western
Front, widely published in a range of newspapers of the time.
Stories of Scottish regiments - in kilts, with their Pipers -
abound. They cushion, but don't diminish, the reality of everyday
life both for soldiers on all sides in the conflict, and for the
local population, amid the 'havoc' of the battlefields; 'the filthy
job of human slaughter'.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING In this
penetrating exploration of contemporary Russia, Joshua Yaffa meets
a variety of Russians - from politicians and entrepreneurs to
artists and historians - who have built their careers and
constructed their identities in the shadow of the Putin system.
Torn between their own ambitions and the omnipresent demands of the
state, each has found that compromise is essential for survival and
success. Between Two Fires is an intimate and probing portrait of a
nation much discussed but little understood, and an urgent lesson
about the nature of modern authoritarianism.
A defining collection from Alistair Cooke's legendary BBC Radio
broadcasts, guiding us through nearly sixty years of changing life
in the United States 'No one else succeeded in explaining to the
English-speaking world ... the idiosyncrasies of a country at once
so familiar, and yet so utterly foreign' Independent When Alistair
Cooke retired in February 2004 he was acclaimed as one of the
greatest broadcasters of all time. His Letter from America radio
series, which began in 1946 and continued every week for
fifty-eight years until his retirement, kept the world in touch
with what was happening in America. Cooke's wry, humane and liberal
style both informed and entertained his audience. The selection
here, made largely by Cooke himself and supplemented by his
literary executor, gives us the very best of these legendary
broadcasts. It covers key moments from the assassination of Kennedy
through to the Vietnam War and Watergate to 9/11, the Iraq War and
anticipates the 2004 elections. It includes portraits of the great
and the good from Charlie Chaplin to Martin Luther King, Jr, and
topics as varied as civil rights, golf, jazz and the changing
colours of a New England fall. Each Letter contributes to a
captivating portrait of a nation - and of a man.
Media reform plays an increasingly important role in the struggle
for social justice. As battles are fought over the future of
investigative journalism, media ownership, spectrum management,
speech rights, broadband access, network neutrality, the
surveillance apparatus, and digital literacy, what effective
strategies can be used in the pursuit of effective media reform?
Prepared by thirty-three scholars and activists from more than
twenty-five countries, Strategies for Media Reform focuses on
theorizing media democratization and evaluating specific projects
for media reform. This edited collection of articles offers readers
the opportunity to reflect on the prospects for and challenges
facing campaigns for media reform and gathers significant examples
of theory, advocacy, and activism from multinational perspectives.
Frank Laskier was born 1912 and lived his early years in the
suburbs of Liverpool. As a teenager, Frank was an avid reader of
Conrad and Masefield and had a romantic view of the "call of the
sea". One day he decided to lie about his age and run away from
home aboard a ship destined for Australia. Laskier worked on many
ships in the merchant navy and it was his experiences during the
Second World War that brought him to the attention of the BBC.
Frank was asked to broadcast a number of talks on his experiences.
This book is a transcript of those radio talks first published in
1941. Through this authentic voice of an ordinary man - not a
historian, or a politician, or a great admiral - but an ordinary
man, we can be reminded of the importance, bravery and sacrifice of
the merchant navy in keeping Britain supplied during the Second
World War. From the 1941 cover: 'We are proud to announce this book
by Frank Laskier, "a sailor, an Englishman," the merchant seaman
who gave the ever-memorable postscript after the BBC news on the
first Sunday in October. The millions of listeners who heard that
deeply moving voice will welcome an opportunity to read many more
stories of the war at sea, which Laskier tells with the
incomparable vividness of simple truth, and which made him a great
broadcast speaker overnight. Laskier sounds, too, the note of
victory that will bring a universal response-"Remember what we have
been through; remember what we're going through; and fight and
fight, and never, never, never, give in!" ' The publisher of this
new edition has included an introduction and explanatory footnotes,
as well as an appendix listing the ships mentioned in the book
along with their descriptions.
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