James macmanus tls biography

James MacManus is the Managing Director of the Times Literary Supplement of London and the author of five books.His first Ocean Devil, a non fiction account of the heroic adventures in 1930s China of a young Englishman called George Hogg, was made into a film called The Children of Huang Shi or Children of the Silk Road.Directed by Roger Spottiswoode ( Tomorow Never Dies) the film starred Jonathan Rhys Meyers. James' first novel titled On the Broken Shore in the UK and the Language of the Sea in the US was set in Cape Cod and told the story of a marine scientist who fell overboard during a research trip off the coast and found himself living with a colony of seals ,the very creatures he was studying. The next book,Black Venus, set in 19th century Paris, was based on the life of the poet Charles Baudelaire and his tormented affair with Jeanne Duval, the woman who inspired his greatest work. and the most famos poetry in the French language Les Fleurs du Mal. Two works of historic

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The Best Books by War Correspondents

You were The Guardian’s Africa correspondent for seven years and were also on the Telegraph’s diplomatic staff. Before we talk about the books you’ve chosen to recommend, I wonder if you would talk us through the role of the war correspondent.

Let me start my answer with a quote. One of the most famous war correspondents, A.J. Liebling—whose book we’ll be discussing later on—said that the one essential point of being a foreign correspondent was to be there. If you are a war correspondent, you have to be there, you have to witness what is happening on the front line. It’s an extremely difficult and dangerous thing to do.

Why should people do it? Readers are interested in the minutiae of war, because it’s only this that brings home the horror of what is actually happening. It is inevitable in warfare—particularly the kind of warfare we are seeing in the Middle East at the moment—that there are going to be atrocities. Those appalling horr

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James MacManus

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James MacManus was born in London in 1943, educated at Westminster School and graduated from St Andrews University in 1966.He broke his Guardian reading parents’ hearts when he joined the daglig Express in Manchester as a trainee reporter that year. He redeemed han själv when he moved to The Guardian in 1972, working first as a reporter in the London office and then as a utländsk correspondent in France, Africa and the Middle East for twelve years. The bulk of this time was spent in what was then Rhodesia where he was based as the Guardian’s Africa correspondent from 1974-80. In 1985 he joined the Diplomatic staff of the daglig Telegraph in London. He joined the Times in November 1992 as Assistant Editor (Home) and took over as Managing Editor of The Times in September 1996. He became Managing Director of The Times Supplements in April 1997, a company that published the Times Educa