#TopTenTuesday ‘Hold the Front Page’ – Books Featuring Newspapers or Journalists #TuesdayBookBlog

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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.

1. 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
2. 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
3. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh – A case of mistaken identity transforms William Boot from country columnist into war correspondent
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx – A journalist relocates to Newfoundland after a personal tragedy and lands a position on a small town paper
10. 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?