News From No Man's Land: Reporting the World, John SimpsonOn 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, often, great danger. In this, his third riveting volume of autobiography, John Simpson focuses on how journalists set about finding the stories that make

about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye-that actually aren't as simple as they seem

Catherine Gray went through all of this

They no longer have very much to say to one another

a wide-ranging glossary

A man with amnesia finds himself on a train traveling into the English country side and is obsessed with finding a woman named Penny

the young Alfred Tennyson

But on reaching French Guiana

a mesmerizing tale that juxtaposes historical events with the most intimate moments of individual lives

from the adoring Queen Kong to the long-suffering wife of the Devil himself

study tips and winning test strategies

and the Wright Brothers had little in common

He is "the perfect guide for a course correction in life" (from the Introduction by Deepak Chopra)