Giles whittell biography template

  • He was the Times' chief leader-writer for three years before joining Tortoise in Along the way he's written a few books including Spitfire Women of World.
  • Giles Whittell, a passionate snow enthusiast, takes the reader on a quest through centuries and continents to reveal the wonders of snow.
  • Giles Quintin Sykes Whittell (born )[1][2] is an English author and journalist who has worked for The Times as Correspondent in Russia and the United States.

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    By Rebecca Foster on | 42 Comments

    As I said in my last post, I’m in the middle of a bunch of books but hardly finishing anything, so consider this another placeholder until my Love Your Library and January releases posts next week. People often ask how I read so much. One of the answers is that I generally read 20–30 books at once, bouncing between them as the mood takes me and making steady progress in most. A frequent follow-up question is how I keep so many books straight in my head. I maintain a variety of genres and topics in the stack and alternate between fiction, nonfiction and poetry in any reading session. If I’m going to be reviewing something, particularly for pay, I tend to make notes. Here’s a peek at my current stacks, with a line or two on each book and why I’m reading it.

    • Myself & Other Animals by Gerald Durrell [public library] – This is a posthumous collection of excerpts from his published work

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      Giles Whittell

      Praise for The Greatest Raid

      I loved this book, as I love any good adventure story sublimely toldThis book has the same effect as that drug. It's a gloriously exciting high, followed by a crushing realisation of war's en

      Gerard deGroot, The Times

      Enthralling . . . the heroism on display that night was unsurpassed, and Whittell is right to call his book The Greatest Raid

      Simon Griffith, Mail on Sunday

      Absorbing . . . The extraordinary bravery of the participants shines out from the narrative

      Patrick Bishop, Sunday Telegraph

      I loved this book, as I love any good adventure story sublimely toldThis book has the same effect as that drug. It's a gloriously exciting high, followed by a crushing realisation of war's en

      Gerard deGroot, The Times

      Enthralling . . . the heroism on display that night was unsurpassed, and Whittell is right to call his book The Greatest Raid

      Simon Griffith, Mail on Sunday

      Absorbing . . . The extr

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      Giles Whittell

      • Bridge of Spies

      • A True Story of the Cold War
      • By: Giles Whittell
      • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
      • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
      • Unabridged

      Who were the three men the American and Soviet superpowers exchanged at Berlin’s Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie in the first prisoner exchange of the nuclear age? Bridge of Spies vividly traces their paths to that electrifying moment on February 10,

      • 4 out of 5 stars

      • Bridge of Spies

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