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A Question of Paternity: My Life as an Unaffiliated Reporter
A Question of Paternity: My Life as an Unaffiliated Reporter
£18.95NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS David Tereshchuk leapt from a bleak childhood in a small town on the English-Scottish borders to a precocious high-flying career as a TV reporter, first in London, then in New York. During his years as a journalist, he managed to elicit revealing statements from tyrants and the oppressed, but there was one person […]
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Flights of Fancy: The Love Letters of Margaret McLaren-Reid
Flights of Fancy: The Love Letters of Margaret McLaren-Reid
£24.95Margaret McLaren-Reid was a society debutante and good-time girl in the 1920s, who enjoyed partying, dancing, flirting and the devotion of two husbands. Richard Cullen wades through over 700 letters to reconstruct her experience of life in the British Empire during the interwar years and subsequently as a wife on the diplomatic circuit.
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How to Rescue a Tiger: And Other Animals
How to Rescue a Tiger: And Other Animals
£24.95Award-winning news photographer Roger Allen had often taken animal photos, but never grasped how badly humans can mistreat other sentient beings. Everything changed for him when he met Mely, an orangutan that had been shackled all its adult life to the verandah of a riverside house in remote Borneo. She was drained of life but […]
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The West and the Rest: Reflections on Our Different Ways of Thinking
The West and the Rest: Reflections on Our Different Ways of Thinking
£18.95We tend to view the world beyond these shores on the basis of what the media make of it, whether the media of words or of images, and long-considered or instant. Ian Ross offers a welcome change of perspective. He spent his career as a senior executive in two controversial industrial sectors—tobacco and oil—and necessarily […]
