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William BoydEverybody remembers Fleet Street and journalism and Lord Copper and The Daily Beast but the novel is about a classic, almost Shakespearean, case of mistaken identity. (Source)
Robert CottrellJournalists would pride themselves on their amateurism, and Scoop shoves that back at them in spades. (Source)
William BoydEverybody remembers Fleet Street and journalism and Lord Copper and The Daily Beast but the novel is about a classic, almost Shakespearean, case of mistaken identity. (Source)
Robert CottrellThe job of a style guide is to set down an idealised version of the world as an editor would like it to be. (Source)
Rosie BlauIt’s the story of a newspaper founded in Rome in the 1950s and we see the lives of 11 different people who work on the paper. It’s just fantastic. (Source)
Robert CottrellThe book is a fictional history of the International Herald Tribune. All the characters are clichés of one sort or another, by intention. (Source)
Peter StothardThe beauty of Frayn’s account is the invisibility of the editor, which in some respects is probably the best model of all. (Source)
Robert CottrellThis novel is said to be based on Frayn’s experience of working at The Observer in the 1960s. All Fleet Street life is there, at least until the mid-1980s. (Source)
In this classic masterwork, le Carré expands upon his extraordinary vision of a secret world as George Smiley goes on the attack.
In the wake of a demoralizing infiltration by a Soviet double agent, Smiley has been made ringmaster of the Circus (aka the British Secret Service). Determined to restore the organization's...
moreRobert CottrellA terrific story, it goes without saying. For one thing, it comes from the golden age when le Carré still cared about plot. But it’s his gift for dialogue that electrifies all his books. (Source)
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