Simpson, John – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Sat, 29 Jul 2023 17:19:58 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Simpson, John – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 Our Friends in Beijing https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/our-friends-in-beijing-2/ Thu, 03 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=19816 Jon Swift is in trouble.

His journalism career is in freefall.

He’s too old to be part of the new world order and he’s never learned to suck up to those in charge. But experience has taught him to trust his instincts.

When, for the first time in years, Jon runs into Lin Lifeng in a café in Oxford he wonders if the meeting is a coincidence. When Lin asks him to pass on a coded message, he knows it’s not.

Travelling to Beijing, Jon starts to follow a tangled web in which it is hard to know who he can trust. Under the watchful eyes of an international network of spies, double-agents and politicians, all with a ruthless desire for power, Jon is in a high-stakes race to expose the truth, before it’s too late.

]]> Our Friends in Beijing https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/our-friends-in-beijing/ Thu, 22 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=14370 OLD FRIENDS, NEW ENEMIES

Jon Swift is in trouble again. His journalism career is in freefall. He is too old to be part of the new world order and he has never learned to suck up to those in charge. But experience has taught him to trust his instincts.

When, for the first time in years, Jon runs into Lin Lifeng in a café in Oxford he wonders if the meeting is a coincidence. When Lin asks him to pass on a coded message, he knows it’s not. Once a radical student who helped Jon broadcast the atrocities of Tiananmen Square, Lin is now a well-dressed party official with his own agenda.

Travelling to Beijing, Jon starts to follow a tangled web in which it is hard to know who are friends and who are enemies. As he ricochets across the country, Jon seeks to make sense of the ways in which China’s past and present are colliding – and what that means for the future of the country and the world. Under the watchful eyes of an international network of spies, double-agents and politicians, all with a ruthless desire for power, Jon is in a high-stakes race to expose the truth, before it’s too late.

]]> News From No Mans Land Reporting World https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/news-from-no-mans-land-reporting-world/ Fri, 02 May 2003 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/news-from-no-mans-land-reporting-world/ On 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 the headlines. It is quintessential Simpson: vivid, utterly absorbing and written with all the care and lucidity of his reporting style.

‘Great stories told with great gusto…an easy and rewarding read’ Jon Snow, Daily Mail.

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