 |
Our Scotland - www.our-scotland.org
Scottish Politics Discussion Forum / Messageboard - Dedicated to online discussion about Scottish Politics and an Independent Scotland, as well as Scottish Society today. We also have a section dedicated to Banter, Sport and Recommended Sites.
|
| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
Scott2006
This is Ma' Life!
Joined: 10 Oct 2006
Posts: 663
Location: Outside Glasgow
|
 Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:44 am Post subject: The Orwell Prize 2009 - Longlist books/journalism/blogs |
 |
|
Well as a kind of antidote to the occasional ill-informed comment/attack what better way to counter-act it than some of the top rated political books on a range of mostly global ideas and the political realities behind them.
http://www.theorwellprize.co.uk/the-award/long-books.aspx
18 books are still in the running for The Orwell Prize 2009 - the Shortlist is announced on the 25th of March, with the prizes awarded on the 22nd April.
| Quote: |
Andrew Brown – Fishing in Utopia: Sweden & The Future That Disappeared
Patrick Cockburn – Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq
Nick Davies – Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media
Eva Figes – Journey to Nowhere: One Woman Looks for the Promised Land
Matthew Green – The Wizard of the Nile: The Hunt for Africa's Most Wanted
Diarmuid Jeffreys – IG Farben and the Making of Hitler’s War Machine
Tony Judt – Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century
Hatim Kanaaneh – A Doctor in Galilee: The Story and Struggle of a Palestinian in Israel
Sara Maitland – A Book of Silence
Owen Matthews – Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love and War
Mark Mazower – Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe
Hsiao-Hung Pai – Chinese Whispers: The True Story Behind Britain's Hidden Army of Labour
Ahmed Rashid – Descent into Chaos: How the War Against Islamic Extremism is Being Lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia
David Runciman – Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power, from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond
Philippe Sands – Torture Team: Uncovering war crimes in the land of the free
Jeremy Seabrook – The Refuge and the Fortress: Britain and the Flight from Tyranny
Mark Thompson – The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1918
A. N. Wilson – Our Times: The Age of Elizabeth II
|
I think someone has a sense of humour in the blogs section - as Tom Harris the Labour MP gets a listing...
_________________
Scotland deserves a First rate Parliament for a First rate People
The Scottish Parliamentarians who voted for Treaty of Union in 1706 and signed away Independence had been voted for by less than 2% of the Scottish population |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
|
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
|
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Join! (free) 
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
