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Books narrated by John Simpson

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  • Twenty Tales from the War Zone

    Fascinating stories from the life and career of John Simpson

    by John Simpson ...
    In a Quick Read published for World Book Day, bestselling author and internationally renowned BBC journalist John Simpson shares some of his fascinating stories from a life spent reporting around the world, from Northern Ireland to Iraq, and from Kosovo to Kabul.Drawing on his multiple acclaimed volumes of autobiography and hitherto unpublished material, Twenty Tales from the War Zone brings ... Read more

    S$ 3.72 SGD

  • Audiobook

    The Wars Against Saddam

    The Hard Road to Baghdad

    by John Simpson ...
    Narrated by John Simpson ...

    Abridged

    3 hours 38 min

    From acclaimed foreign correspondent John Simpson, a riveting account of more than twenty years spent covering Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Read by the author.A major work of serious reportage, The Wars Against Saddam explores the full story of Saddam Hussein's rise to power, and his relationship with the West throughout his dictatorship. Simpson blends history with personal anecdotes from decades spent ... Read more

    S$ 12.00 SGD

  • Our Friends in Beijing

    by John Simpson ...
    Jon Swift is in trouble.His journalism career is in freefall.He's too old to be part of the new world order and he's never learned to suck up to those in charge. But experience has taught him to trust his instincts.When, for the first time in years, Jon runs into Lin Lifeng in a café in Oxford he wonders if the meeting is a coincidence. When Lin asks him to pass on a coded message, he knows it's ... Read more

    S$ 13.83 SGD

  • XPath and XPointer

    Locating Content in XML Documents

    by John Simpson ...
    Referring to specific information inside an XML document is a little like finding a needle in a haystack: how do you differentiate the information you need from everything else? XPath and XPointer are two closely related languages that play a key role in XML processing by allowing developers to find these needles and manipulate embedded information. XPath describes a route for finding specific ... Read more

    S$ 24.08 SGD

  • Audiobook

    Unreliable Sources

    How the Twentieth Century Was Reported

    by John Simpson ...
    Narrated by John Simpson ...

    Abridged

    6 hours 49 min

    **'Informative, amusing, sometimes shocking' – Giles Foden, The GuardianA critical examination of the British press over the last century, from legendary foreign correspondent John Simpson.**Through many decades of groundbreaking journalism across the globe, John Simpson has become one of the most recognisable and trusted British reporters. In Unreliable Sources, he draws upon this extensive ... Read more

    S$ 17.15 SGD

  • Audiobook

    News from No Man's Land

    Extraordinary stories from a life spent reporting the world

    by John Simpson ...
    Narrated by John Simpson ...

    Abridged

    2 hours 53 min

    The third volume of autobiography from legendary foreign correspondent, John Simpson. Read by the author.13 November 2001. John Simpson and a BBC news crew walked into Kabul and the liberation of the Afghan capital was broadcast to a waiting world. It was the end of a sustained campaign against the Taliban, a campaign that Simpson had covered from the beginning, despite appalling difficulties and, ... Read more

    S$ 12.00 SGD

  • Audiobook

    Not Quite World's End

    A Traveller's Tales

    by John Simpson ...
    Narrated by John Simpson ...

    Abridged

    4 hours 5 min

    The fourth volume of autobiography from legendary foreign correspondent, John Simpson. Read by the author.For over fifty years, John Simpson has travelled the world to report on the most significant events of our time. In Not Quite World's End, he offers a lively and upbeat look at the challenges and changes the world has gone through in his life and long career.He looks at the world's troubles – ... Read more

    S$ 15.43 SGD

  • Moscow, Midnight

    by John Simpson ...
    Government minister Patrick Macready has been found dead in his flat. The coroner rules it an accident, a sex game gone wrong.Jon Swift is from the old stock of journos - cynical, cantankerous and overweight - and something about his friend's death doesn't seem right. Then days after Macready's flat is apparently burgled, Swift discovers that his friend had been researching a string of Russian ... Read more

    S$ 16.67 SGD

  • The Word Detective

    A Life in Words: From Serendipity to Selfie

    by John Simpson ...
    Language is always changing. No one knows where it is going but the best way to future-cast is to look at the past. John Simpson animates for us a tradition of researching and editing, showing us both the technical lexicography needed to understand a word, and the careful poetry needed to construct its definition. He challenges both the idea that dictionaries are definitive, and the notion that ... Read more

    S$ 16.67 SGD

  • Strange Places, Questionable People

    Astonishing tales from a life spent reporting around the world

    by John Simpson ...
    The first volume of autobiography from legendary foreign correspondent, John Simpson.Since the 1970s, John Simpson has travelled the world to report on the most significant events of our time. From being punched in the stomach by Harold Wilson on one of his first days as a reporter, to escaping summary execution in Beirut, flying into Tehran with the returning Ayatollah Khomeini, and narrowly ... Read more

    S$ 24.62 SGD

  • We Chose to Speak of War and Strife

    The World of the Foreign Correspondent

    by John Simpson ...
    From distinguished foreign correspondent John Simpson, a fascinating history of what it is to risk life and limb to bring home news of the troubled world'Great stories, sometimes harrowing, sometimes hilarious' TelegraphIn corners of the globe where fault-lines seethe into bloodshed and civil war, foreign correspondents have, for hundreds of years, been engaged in uncovering the latest news and – ... Read more

    S$ 28.00 SGD

  • Unreliable Sources

    How the Twentieth Century Was Reported

    by John Simpson ...
    **'Informative, amusing, sometimes shocking' – Giles Foden, The GuardianA critical examination of the British press over the last century, from legendary foreign correspondent John Simpson.**Through many decades of groundbreaking journalism across the globe, John Simpson has become one of the most recognisable and trusted British reporters. In Unreliable Sources, he draws upon this extensive ... Read more

    S$ 14.81 SGD