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What I do: more true tales of everyday craziness

Ronson, Jon
In What I Do: More True Tales of Everyday Craziness, the second volume of Jon Ronson's collected Guardianjournalism, he hilariously demonstrates how our everyday lives are determined by the craziest thoughts and obsessions; how we spend our time believing in and getting worked up by complete nonsense. But also, as he chillingly demonstrates, there are clever people working in the highest echelons of business who are employed to spot, nurture and exploit the irrationalities of those among us who can barely cope as it is.
Picador 2007 269 pages

Election notebook: the inside story of the battle over Britain's future and my personal battle to report it

Robinson, Nick
2015's General Election and its profound implications for Britain's political and economic future. The year that led up to May 7, 2015 determined not just who governed Britain but the future of the country itself. Night after night Nick Robinson wrote in his private notebook what he saw and heard and thought after a day spent broadcasting from the campaign trail and the House of Commons, or interviewing the nation's political leaders. It records his insider's view of the extraordinary events he reported on day after day to millions of viewers and listeners. This was a year in which Nick asked David Cameron why he spent more on a dinner than the amount he was cutting from a family's annual tax credits; Ed Miliband whether he saw a prime minister when looked in the mirr∨ Nigel Farage why he employed his German wife and not a Brit to be his taxpayer-funded secretary and Alex Salmond why people should trust him and not businessmen. It was a year in which the BBC sometimes found itself dragged into the fight. This is a story not just of a battle for power but of the bare-knuckle fight between the established parties and UKIP, the SNP, the Greens and others to break the hold on power of the big three and the historic battle over Scottish independence and Britain's membership of the EU. Nick Robinson's Election Notebook is filled with insight, analysis and behind the scenes gossip during an adrenalin-fuelled year.
Bantam Press 2015 385 pages