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Hitch 22
By Christopher Hitchens
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Published 04-Dec-2010
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The acid, hilarious, confessional, provocative bestselling memoirs of our greatest contrarian, and the author of God Is Not Great.
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Long Lunch
By Simon Hoggart
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Published 26-May-2011
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A host of anecdotes from Simon's 40-plus years in journalism
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Boy with the Topknot
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Published 30-Apr-2009
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For the author, growing up in Wolverhampton in the eighties was a confusing business. On the one hand, these were the heady days of George Michael mix-tapes, Dallas on TV and, if he was lucky, the occasional Bounty Bar. This title tells his story.
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Live from Downing Street
By Nick Robinson
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Published 25-Oct-2012
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The relationship between those who wield power and those whose job it is to tell us what they are doing has always been fraught with tension. This book takes you on an absorbing journey through the hard-fought battles for the right to tell the public about the decisions taken on their behalf.
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Masters of the Post
By Duncan Campbell-Smith
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Published 01-Nov-2012
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From the first master of the post in 1512 to the vast network of today, the Royal Mail is an intrinsic part of everyday life in Britain. Whether describing the sensation caused by the penny post in 1840, the Great Train Robbery of 1963, or the growth of telegrams and telephones, this book shows how the history of the Royal Mail is our history.
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My Ideal Bookshelf
By Jane Mount
Hardback
Published 29-Nov-2012
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Buttoned-Up
By Fantastic Man
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Published 07-Mar-2013
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Tells the story of London style through the history of the button-down shirt.
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Dial M for Murdoch
By Tom Watson
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Published 19-Apr-2012
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Offers an account of the extraordinary lengths to which the Rupert Murdochs' News Corporation went to "put the problem in a box" (in James Murdoch's words), how its efforts to maintain and extend its power were aided by its political and police friends, and how it was finally exposed.
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How Soon is Now?
By Richard King
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Published 05-Apr-2012
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Provides a survey of the record labels that make up the backbone of the independent music industry and the hugely inspirational, eccentric, impulsive and visionary figures who created them.
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Tubes
By Andrew Blum
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Published 07-Jun-2012
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Internet is a bunch of tubes. Hundreds of thousands of miles of fibre-optic cable, pulsing with trillions of photons of light, linking us via anonymous exchanges in secretive locations with vast data-warehouses where our online selves are stored in banks of spinning hard-drives. This title takes us behind the scenes of this hidden world.
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