Tales from the Bedroom Floor

London: Virgin Publishing Ltd, 2001 Why is this book on the bedroom floor?: There are innumerable books about The Beatles out there, it doesn't take long for you to stray into the lives of those they met. Unfortunately, this will sometimes include the distasteful. While macabre, I ordered this from eBay so I could get a more rounded picture of what happened that dreadful night in December 1980. About the Author: Jack Jones is an investigative journalist who has written about the American penal system for a number of years, which included a spell working undercover at Attica maximum-security prison. This led to an exclusive, conducting the first personal interviews with David Berkowitz, the notorious 'Son of Sam'. Plot: The murder of John Lennon, through the eyes of the murderer. Jones conducted over 200 hours worth of interviews with Mark David Chapman, and this is the result, helping us to understand the why, the how and the aftermath of an event we are still yet to mak...

London: John Murray, 2005 Why is this book on the bedroom floor?: This is another of the bargains I picked up in the library booksale when I worked there. The price inside showed that it would have cost one lucky punter 40p, so I got it for half that because of library privilege. About the Author: A prolific writer and television producer, Stephen Walker has won numerous awards for his work including an Emmy, a BAFTA and the Rose d'Or at Montreux. He is currently working on a book surrounding the events of Major Yuri Gagarin's flight into space. Plot: A tense account of one of the most vivid events in history, when the city of Hiroshima suffered a spectacular bombing raid, destroying the city and ushering in the start of the nuclear age. Review: On a bright, clear morning, high above the mountains which surrounded the port of Hiroshima, air raid sirens began to shriek. Although this was not an uncommon occurrence, this particular air raid differed in three important respects...

London: Yellow Jersey, 2016 Why is this book on the bedroom floor?: I’m somewhat of a collector of football books, but only if they give me some insight into the theoretical aspect of the game; the why rather than the what. And what better way to find out how to win stuff than listen to the Germans? And it was a Christmas present from my Amazon list, if any fans of mine are feeling generous. About the Author: A former law student, Raphael Honigstein moved to London in the early nineteen-nineties. He is the English football correspondent for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the German football correspondent for The Guardian and talkSPORT . Most recently, Honigstein has become a major contributor to The Athletic and a regular presence on BT Sport . He is also the author of Englischer Fussball: A German View of Our Beautiful Game . His Twitter handle is @honigstein . Plot: How does a team win a World Cup, particularly if they are paradoxically a perennial favourite but expected to fail? D...