Former Guardian journalist and co-author of a savagely funny book about the Sun newspaper, Stick It Up Your Punter!Pugnacious and anarchic, the former Guardian journalist Peter Chippindale, who has died aged 69 of kidney failure, assured his reputation with one savagely funny book Stick It Up Your Punter! This was a history of Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper, co-written with Chris Horrie. Peter rose exuberantly to the challenge of pinning down the leering, jeering, bully-boy editor Kelvin MacKenzie. The book's title came from "Stick it up your Junta!", one of MacKenzie's notorious "anti-Argie" headlines during the Falklands war. The other was "Gotcha!", when the cruiser Belgrano was torpedoed. Stick It Up Your Punter!, published in 1990, was a classic exposure of the paper's prurience and noisy cynicism. The book deservedly remains high on media studies reading lists.Peter and I first worked together on the Guardian in 1979 on the Jeremy Thorpe case. In an atmosphere of black farce, the then Liberal party leader was accused of ineptly conspiring to murder his former male lover, but succeeding only in having his dog, a Great Dane called Rinka, shot. Some Guardian bosses were uneasy at what they feared was an anti-gay, anti-Liberal witch-hunt. But Chip's truculence proved its journalistic worth. After Thorpe's eventual acquittal, a juror revealed to us that the jury had crucially objected to the chief prosecution witness being offered £50,000 for his story by the Telegraph... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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Andrew Martins First World War novel The Somme Stations (Faber) has won this years... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Fri, 28/10/2011 - 10:36 Pan Macmillan has acquired a collection of short stories from bestselling crime and thriller writer Peter James, with publishing director Wayne Brookes buying UK and Commonwealth rights through agent Carole Blake at Blake... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Thu, 08/09/2011 - 08:45 Faber is to publish a new novel by Australian literary heavyweight Peter Carey next year, with the publisher already billing the dual-narrative title as a classic. read more Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Tue, 14/06/2011 - 15:12 Ladybird Books is to publish a series of pre-school children's books in collaboration with singer and TV star Peter Andre. Publishing director Eric Huang, who bought world English language rights, excluding North America,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Written By: Philip Jones Publication Date: Thu, 09/06/2011 - 10:05 Literary agent Peter Cox has offered to review "any" contract given to an author by an agent for free in order to ensure that the author has "impartial advice". The move is a response to agents setting up their own publishing... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Wed, 25/05/2011 - 14:00 John Le Carré and Peter James were the big winners at this year's Sounds of Crime awards for audio crime fiction. The awards took place at this week's Crimefest in Bristol. Le Carré clinched the prize for the best abridged... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Mon, 04/04/2011 - 15:00 Biteback has bought the memoir of former Northern Ireland secretary of state and anti-apartheid campaigner Peter Hain. Managing director Iain Dale bought UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Guam and South Africa) from... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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