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Posted on 2011/04/01 , tagged as

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Publishing trade magazine The Bookseller runs a story today about our acquisition of a new title by one of our favourite and best-known authors, Martin Bell, pictured left.

His book – For Whom the Bell Tolls – is a collection of often autobiographical light verse. Oscillating between trenchant satire and touching honesty, Bell presents poems on Tony Blair and Iraq, on Radovan Karadzic, the Serbian war criminal whom he met on trial in the Hague, on his hero, Reuters reporter Kurt Schork, killed on assignment in Sierra Leone, and colourful episodes from his work and life, from the chart-topping calypso written about him in St Lucia to his being a guest at Idi Amin’s wedding: ‘…that by God / Was well worth doing, if distinctly odd.’

The book will published in December this year. The Bookseller’s piece is here and there’s more about the book here.