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Our Friends in Beijing by John Simpson
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
OLD FRIENDS, NEW ENEMIES Jon Swift is in trouble again. His journalism career is in freefall. He is too old to be part of the new world order and he has 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 ...Show more
The Word Detective: A Life in Words: From Serendipity to Selfie by John Simpson
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
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 ...Show more
The Word Detective: A Life in Words: from Shenanigan to Selfie by John Simpson
$39.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries, Language & Reference
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 ...Show more
We Chose to Speak of War and Strife: The World of the Foreign Correspondent by John Simpson
$22.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In 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 - despite obstacles bureaucratic, political, violent - reporting it by whatever means available. It's a working life that is d ...Show more
We Chose to Speak of War and Strife: The World of the Foreign Correspondent by John Simpson
$32.99 NZD
Category: History
In 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 - despite obstacles bureaucratic, political, violent - reporting it by whatever means available. It's a working life that is d ...Show more
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