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Bob Geldof in Africa

Africa is not the Dark Continent as so often described by writers from the gloomy northern skies of Europe. Not the Dark Continent at all. It is the Luminous Continent.

Drenched in sun, pounded by heat and shimmering in its blinding glare. And within this immense continent, deserts with rolling seas of sand, tropics shrouded with jungles, equators dense with rainforest and coasts with more animals and fish than seems possible. There are more people, languages and cultures here than anywhere else on our planet. Africa is quite simply the most extraordinary, beautiful and luminous place on earth.

Psycho Geography - Will Self and Ralf Steadman

A post-millennial meditation on the vexed relationship between psyche and place in globalised world, bringing together the selections from the 'Psychogeography' columns from the "Independent". It contains an
introduction, 'Walking to New York', which is both a prelude to the verbal and visual essays that make up this collaboration.

Ned Sherrin - The Autobiography

"I was born between the villages of High Ham and Low Ham in the county of Somerset. For a long time I thought how neat it would be to go to the House of Lords as Lord Sherrin of High and Low Ham - the perfect theatrical title. No call came . .."

Piers Morgan - The Insider

At the tender age of 28, PIERS MORGAN was made editor of a national newspaper. So began a career at the epicentre of Britain's media over one of the most tumultuous and scandalous decades of modern times.

We were rocked by the death of Diana and saw the Royal Family brought to its knees by scandal and tragedy; we witnessed the implosion of the Tories and the rise of New Labour; we found ourselves enthralled by a stream of celebrity gossip. And then, on 11 September 2001, the world changed forever. Within months Britain was at war.

Martin Bell "Through Gates of Fire"

What kind of world are we making for ourselves?

Martin Bell uses his personal experiences
as a reporter of eleven wars (to date), and independent MP, to write an
impassioned, heartfelt and coruscating arms. His three central themes are the way in which war, politics and journalism have changed beyond all recognition in the past thirty years.

"Editor" by Max Hastings

An inside story of Newspapers

In December 1985, Max Hastings was an author and Sunday Times columnist living deep in the Northamptonshire countryside, when he was suddenly, and dramatically, offered the chance to become editor of the Daily Telegraph.