 | My Trade: A Short History of British Journalism by Andrew Marr
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £0.01 Good God this boy can write. Essential reading for hacks, wannabe hacks and anyone who reads or watches the news.
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 | Ghosting: A Double Life by Jennie Erdal
Buy new: £6.69 / Used from: £0.01 The moral of this story: Don't believe the byline.
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 | The Nation's Favourite: True Adventures of Radio 1 by Simon Garfield
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 A smashing read and a wizard piece of journalism, composed entirely of interviews with big egos. The beauty is in their contradictions.
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 | As If by Blake Morrison
Buy new: £5.71 / Used from: £2.19 Morrison's journalistic masterpiece unpicks the Bulger case as a depressing example of the power of the press to demonise and simplify.
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 | Cries Unheard: the Story of Mary Bell by Gitta Sereny
Buy used from: £4.95 Works well as a companion piece to the Morrison book. Plus ca change.
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 | Conversations With My Agent by Rob Long
Buy used from: £6.72 What happens when the commissions dry up. Catastrophically out of print. Memo to Penguin: re-issue immediately, you twonks.
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