Steve Clarke

Chris Horrie

No-one could have foretold Greg Dyke's astonishing rise from unemployed former Marks & Spencer management trainee to one of the most powerful roles in British Broadcasting and a position of major influence in Labour's 'New Britain'. Now Chris Horrie and Steve Clarke look back at the colourful and dramatic career of the first People's Director General of the BBC. This compelling biography examines Dyke's association with TV's powerful gunslingers including John Birt and Michael Grade; his work with the disgraced Jonathan Aitken in the dramatic rescue of TV-AM; the political battles which earned him his role as New Labour's favourite media executive; the 1994 takeover of LWT which left Greg unemployed; and the Director General's arrival at the BBC, with a blow-by-blow account of the backstabbing between the BBC governors and New Labour spin doctors.

The Extraordinary Story of Greg Dyke and how He Captured the BBC

Citizen Greg

David Matthews

Why would anyone be a Conservative? Two writers set out on a slightly unnerving journey through middle England - with hilarious results.

Strange Tales from a Tory Nation

True Blue

Peter Chippindale

Newly updated to 2012 and the Leveson Inquiry, Stick It Up Your Punter! is the classic story of the Sun newspaper, its part in the rise of Rupert Murdoch's business empire, and the extraordinary role it came to play in British society and politics. From Murdoch's purchase and rebranding of the old loss-making Sun in 1969, through the soaraway-successful and often scandalous years of success under foul-mouthed editor Kelvin MacKenzie, to the 'phone-hacking' disgrace of 2012 which put Murdoch's business affairs under scrutiny as never before - this is the story of the paper that, for better or worse, redefined 'tabloid journalism'. '[This] anarchic account... could be a script for Carry On Up Fleet Street.' Alan Rusbridger, Guardian 'The funniest book of the year, perhaps of the decade.' Times 'Splendidly racy.' Economist 'A story which social and political historians of the 20th century will not find easy to ignore.' London Review of Books

The Uncut Story of the Sun Newspaper

Stick It Up Your Punter!

Fear and Loathing at the BBC

Fuzzy Monsters

Adam Nathan

When the archetypal hack, Kelvin MacKenzie, left the editorship of the SUN newspaper to set up LIVE TV for the Mirror Group the stage was set for an explosive clash of egos. For, in the other corner, stood Janet Street-Porter, the queen of trendy television, whose direction of LIVE TV was proving to be a multi-million pound flop. It is ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS meets MEN BEHAVING BADLY on the set of DROP THE DEAD DONKEY.

Live TV

Whatever happened to middle England? Two of our funniest writers set out on a journey through conservative country – with hilarious results.

Chris Horrie

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