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This week’s Ten Tuesday topic is April Showers. I struggled to come up with ideas to fit the topic so I created my own – Books Featuring Newspapers or Journalists. Having said that, I guess reading the news might be something to occupy you when it’s raining. Links from each title will take you to my review or the book description on Goodreads.
- Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers – When a young woman contacts a local paper claiming her daughter is the result of a virgin birth, feature writer Jean Swinney is sent to discover whether she is a miracle or a fraud
- A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie – The residents of Chipping Cleghorn are intrigued by an advertisement in the local paper announcing the time and place a murder will occur
- Scoop by Evelyn Waugh – A case of mistaken identity transforms William Boot from country columnist into war correspondent
- Dear Mrs Bird by A J Pearce – Emmeline Lake obtains a position as typist to the fierce and renowned advice columnist of the London Evening Chronicle, Henrietta Bird
- The Northern Light by A. J. Cronin – Henry Page, owner of The Northern Light, the oldest and most respected newspaper in Tynecastle, is offered a vast sum to turn over control to a mass-circulation group based in London
- The Quiet American by Graham Greene – A British journalist in his fifties who has covered the French war in Vietnam for more than two years meets a young American idealist who is an undercover CIA agent
- My Name is Emilia del Valle by Isobel Allende – An ambitious young woman lands a position as a journalist for the Daily Examiner and is sent to cover a brewing civil war in Chile
- Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn – Fresh from a brief stay at a psychiatric hospital, a reporter is sent to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two young girls
- The Shipping News by Annie Proulx – A journalist relocates to Newfoundland after a personal tragedy and lands a position on a small town paper
- The Gap in the Curtain by John Buchan – Guests at a country house party are enabled by an eccentric scientist to see a glimpse of an issue of The Times newspaper dated a year hence
What other books have you read that involve newspapers or journalism?
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