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Brian Cathcart

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Brian Cathcart is a journalist by background, having worked for Reuters, the London Independent papers and the New Statesman, and he is now professor of journalism at Kingston University London. Some of his books (including The Case of Stephen Lawrence, which won the Orwell Prize and a CWA Gold Dagger) have grown out of news and journalism; others (such as The Fly in the Cathedral) reflect his love of history. His latest, The News From Waterloo, combines the two. Cathcart is also a campaigner, having co-founded Hacked Off in 2011 to make the case for a free and accountable press. He is married with grown-up sons and lives in London, where he feeds the birds in the garden and from which he escapes occasionally to walk the Pennine Way.

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A five-star beginning

So, while many of you have been thinking of other things, my book (The News From Waterloo) has come out – and to critical acclaim. Or more precisely to a review in the Daily Telegraph that I am pleased to say gives it five stars. You can read it here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/bo....
A five-star review has also appeared on Amazon, and it's not by me but by a regular reviewer there who goes Read more of this blog post »
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Published on May 09, 2015 04:14 Tags: georgian, history, military, news, newspapers, regency, waterloo

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