The Insider - Hardcover

Morgan, Piers

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0091905060 ISBN 13: 9780091905064

Publisher: Ebury Press, 2005

Synopsis

At the record-breaking age of 28 Piers Morgan was made editor of the News of the World, the UK's biggest-selling Sunday newspaper. The decade that followed was one of the most tumultuous in modern times, a period in which we witnessed the self-implosion of the Tories, the rise of New Labour, the Royal Family brought to its knees by scandal and tragedy, horrific news events like Dunblane, september 11, and the war in Iraq - alongside a seemingly endless supply of fantastically entertaining sport and celebrity gossip. Throughout the period (he later moved to the Mirror, Infamously deciding to take it upmarket and stand alone in making the paper anti-war) he kept detailed diaries of what happened, as it happened - recording encounters and escapades with the key figures involved, from Murdoch to Blair, Diana to the Beckhams. Like Alan Clark and Paul Burrell before him, The Insider will give the wider reading public an unprecedented insight into the workings not only of newspapers, but the inside track on the corridors of power in Britain. Entertaining, engaging and compulsive, The Insider is set to become the most talked-about book of the 2005, blowing apart every notion we have about politics, media and celebrity in twenty-first century Britain.

About this title

Product Description:

Welcome to the world of indiscreet dinner's, private meetings, and gossipy lunches..Laugh-out-loud and nothing less than shocking, this is first hand experience of the secret-deals, plotting, and power-games that make Britain what it is today. (BIO)

Review:

"Piers Morgan’s ghastly diaries will be the epitaph of this government...a book of historic importance" -- Peter Oborne, Spectator

"funny and fabulously indiscreet...holds a mirror to the spinning and posturing of our celebrity age" -- The Observer

"gives us hundreds of wonderful tales, some funny, some profound, some just fascinating" -- Greg Dyke, The Guardian

"riotous" -- Andrew Marr, Start the Week

(he) gives us hundreds of wonderful tales, some funny, some profound, some just fascinating -- Greg Dyke, Guardian

...this is a book that holds up a mirror to the spinning and posturing of our celebrity age... -- The Observer

Riotous -- Andrew Marr, Start the Week BBC R4

scurrilously entertaining -- The Observer

About this edition

• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0091905060
• ISBN 13: 9780091905064
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 496