Andrew Marr: 19 books

'We may be about to see a new country - indeed, two new countries, - emerging on these islands. Half a lifetime ago, I sat down to write this book as a work of history. As it's aged, it's become current affairs.' Just twenty years ago it seemed impossible that Scotland would ever get home rule,...

Elizabeth II comemorou, em fevereiro de 2012, seu jubileu de diamante — 60 anos como rainha da Grã-Bretanha. É justamente neste momento que o jornalista Andrew Marr volta sua pena sagaz à monarquia e à monarca, revelando o papel central que ela ocupa como chefe de estado de 19 países, normalmente...

How do you decide what is a 'story' and what isn't? What does a newspaper editor actually do all day? How do hacks get their scoops? How do the TV stations choose their news bulletins? How do you persuade people to say those awful, embarrassing things? Who earns what? How do journalists manage to...

Andrew Marr, a former Green Beret with multiple tours of duty in Afghanistan, fought in the war incurring dozens of traumatic brain injuries that really began off the battlefield. It about destroyed him and his family, and almost cost him his life. Marr’s triumph in seeking answers and treatment...

Andrew Marr lockt mit seiner BBC-Sendung – die ANDREW MARR SHOW – am Sonntagmorgen Millionen vor den Fernseher. Regelmäßig liefert er als einer der angesehensten Politikjournalisten Englands Gesprächsstoff für die ganze Woche. Jetzt legt er mit "Der Premierminister" eine scharfe Satire auf...

It’s September 2017, and the United Kingdom is on the verge of a crucial referendum that will determine, once and for all, if the country remains a member of the European Union or goes its own way. But, unsuspected by the electorate, and unknown to all but a handful of members of the Prime Minister’s...

O entendimento da história mundial se transforma à medida que novas descobertas são feitas em todos os continentes e velhos preconceitos são desafiados. Nessa jornada verdadeiramente global, Andrew Marr revisita os relatos épicos tradicionais, desde a Grécia e a Roma clássicas até a ascensão...

A surprising and very personal biography of a woman who may be the world's last great queen, published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of her reign Elizabeth II, one of England's longest-reigning monarchs, is an enigma. In public, she confines herself to optimistic pieties and guarded...

A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification....

Between the death of Queen Victoria and the turn of the Millennium, Britain has been utterly transformed by an extraordinary century of war and peace. A History of 20th Century Britain collects together for the first time Andrew Marr's two bestselling volumes A History of Modern Britain and...

In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation...

Fresh, exciting and vividly readable, this is popular history at its very best. Our understanding of world history is changing, as new discoveries are made on all the continents and old prejudices are being challenged. In this truly global journey Andrew Marr revisits some of the traditional...

Since their founding as St. Gregorys Priory in Valparaiso, Indiana in 1939, the monks of St. Gregorys have published newsletters to share community news and reflections on the Christian life. In 1999, they published a collection of photos and articles from their newsletters called Singing Gods Praises:...

Neste livro, Andrew Marr alarga a lente da História, indo para lá da Europa, até às Américas, a África e à Ásia. E, em vez de se centrar num único episódio num único local, apresenta-nos paralelos surpreendentes e ligações fascinantes, focando a sua atenção num incidente ou episódio específico...