Killing My Own Snakes by Ann Leslie
The long-awaited and utterly enthralling autobiography of a Fleet Street legend.
A smashing tale of history and handbags and the role of the bra in a danger zone * The Independent on Sunday *
Dame Ann Leslie is one of the greatest journalists of her generationThis is a masterpiece – always self-deprecating, always exciting, always witty -- A.N. Wilson
A vivid, absorbing book which, like Leslie's best journalism, conveys what it's like to live through wars, civil conflicts, oppression and historic change * The Guardian *
A marvellous memoir of great insight and wit from one of Britain's most formidable and accomplished journalists -- Andrew Neil
This is a cracking read! -- Paul O'Grady
If you want to know what journalism is really like, read her book: it's wonderful -- Andrew Marr
Ann Leslie has always seen the key details and written them down with a passion, tension and wit which remind us why journalists call assignments a "good story" -- Mark Lawson
A memoir that is not only entertaining but could serve as a vade mecum to recent world history * The Scotsman *
You can't help being enthralled by this most extraordinary story. Leslie describes encounters with pin-ups and prime ministers, debs and dictators -- Liberty Shami Chakrabarti
Ann Leslie is quite simply one of the most fearless, talented and witty journalists in Britain today -- Gavin Esler
A Daily Mail veteran who writes like a salsa-dancing viper * Daily Echo *
Ann Leslie emerges from this memoir exactly as you might have expected: shrewd, hard and crafty, but also loyal, truthful and brave * Times Literary Supplement *
Dame Ann Leslie is one of the greatest journalists of her generationThis is a masterpiece – always self-deprecating, always exciting, always witty -- A.N. Wilson
A vivid, absorbing book which, like Leslie's best journalism, conveys what it's like to live through wars, civil conflicts, oppression and historic change * The Guardian *
A marvellous memoir of great insight and wit from one of Britain's most formidable and accomplished journalists -- Andrew Neil
This is a cracking read! -- Paul O'Grady
If you want to know what journalism is really like, read her book: it's wonderful -- Andrew Marr
Ann Leslie has always seen the key details and written them down with a passion, tension and wit which remind us why journalists call assignments a "good story" -- Mark Lawson
A memoir that is not only entertaining but could serve as a vade mecum to recent world history * The Scotsman *
You can't help being enthralled by this most extraordinary story. Leslie describes encounters with pin-ups and prime ministers, debs and dictators -- Liberty Shami Chakrabarti
Ann Leslie is quite simply one of the most fearless, talented and witty journalists in Britain today -- Gavin Esler
A Daily Mail veteran who writes like a salsa-dancing viper * Daily Echo *
Ann Leslie emerges from this memoir exactly as you might have expected: shrewd, hard and crafty, but also loyal, truthful and brave * Times Literary Supplement *
Ann Leslie was the doyenne of women reporters for more than thirty years. In 2007 she was made a Dame of the British Empire for her pioneering journalism and for forging the way for women in the press world. She lived in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781447249061 |
| ISBN 10 | 1447249062 |
| Title | Killing My Own Snakes |
| Author | Ann Leslie |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2013-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
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