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Non-fiction – paperback; Transit Lounge; 224 pages; 2016. Review copy courtesy of the publisher. Earlier this month (9 April) marked my 20th anniversary working in journalism, while earlier th...

https://readingmattersblog.com/2016/04/30/the-media-and-the-massacre-by-sonya-voumard/

Non-fiction – paperback; Berkley Books; 320 pages; 2015. Earlier this year I watched the HBO documentary series The Jinx, which told the amazing true life story of Robert Durst, the son of a...

https://readingmattersblog.com/2015/09/15/a-deadly-secret-the-bizarre-and-chilling-story-of-robert-durst-by-matt-birkbeck/

Fiction – paperback; Vintage; 336 pages; 2013. Translated from the French by Sam Taylor. Laurent Binet’s HHhH is a unique take on the historical novel: it not only blends fact with fiction, ...

https://readingmattersblog.com/2015/02/18/hhhh-by-laurent-binet/

Non-fiction – Kindle edition; Sceptre; 353 pages; 2010. John Vaillant’s The Tiger is a gripping account of the hunt to find a man-eating tiger in Russia’s Far East — a place known as Prim...

https://readingmattersblog.com/2012/01/04/the-tiger-a-true-story-of-vengeance-and-survival-by-john-vaillant/

Non-fiction – paperback; Atlantic Books; 320 pages; 2010. Journalist Jan Wong is a third-generation Canadian of Chinese heritage. In 1972, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, she became o...

https://readingmattersblog.com/2011/09/07/chinese-whispers-a-journey-into-betrayal-by-jan-wong/