Should I bluff my way into the camp and try to interview the rebel leader, even though he is a mass murderer? Her mother, a great beauty, was indifferent to her eldest daughter and she was sent to the first of a series of boarding-schools aged just four, eventually winning a scholarship to Oxford. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. After graduating she began her career at the Manchester office of the Daily Express, where the news editor took an instant dislike to her - she was a southerner, educated and -- worst of all -- female.

She shrugs off a rape attempt in the Middle East, saying it didn't amount to anything much because she escaped 'with only a few knife cuts on my back'. In this book she describes her life from childhood in India, early work on a provincial newspaper and then to her travels around the world's often dangerous places, meeting many of the people, nice and not so nice, who helped shape the late 20th century. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. Then, after a stint covering show business she was appointed Foreign Correspondent of the Daily Mail, an association that endures today, almost forty years later, and one which finally allowed her real talent to shine through. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Unfortunately, although there was quite a lot of interesting facts in this memoir, like a lot of autobiographies of people in the media, it came across as one big ego trip. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

Born in north-west India, the strongest influence on her early life was her beloved Yah Mohammed, an illiterate Pashtun bearer, who saved her life during Partition. Shot at by Bosnian snipers, pursued by Robert Magabe’s secret police and been at Nelson Mandella’s release are some of the many tales she tells. In the Sixties, she went on the trail of some fearsome Mexican drug traffickers while wearing 'white gloves, a white-and-yellow Horrocks frock (in those distant days, the epitome of the bourgeois Celia Johnson style), and carrying a white handbag'. To my considerable pride, I’ve gotten the coolest of the Student Nominations three years running (best story teller, most unpredictable, most dramatic). It is impossible not to respect the fact that she has managed for decades to smuggle these views – and world-class journalism – into the Daily Mail.EXCLUSIVEKate is reunited with her three children for the first time in two weeks after leaving hospital.

Ashley Park shares a hug with Emily In Paris star Lily Collins as she is 'recovering and resting in Paris'. But it’s not all world politics, some subjects of her stories are from the world of sport and entertainment. However, then our heroine is rescued and sent off to London to become a star columnist, which she does rather well, and the globetrotting begins.

There is also an unforgettable encounter with the soi-disant First Lady of Fleet Street, Jean Rook, whom one has always suspected was a quite shocking old bag, and who indeed turns out to have been just that. the Daily Mail (she rejects the title war correspondent), and she has never been content to take things at face value. Following the break-up of the former Yugoslavia, for example, she refused to accept that the Serbs were uniquely guilty of war crimes. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.