Stick It Up Your Punter!

Newly updated to 2012 and the Leveson Inquiry, Stick It Up Your Punter! is the classic story of the Sun newspaper, its part in the rise of Rupert Murdochs business empire, and the extraordinary role it came to play in British society and politics. From Murdochs purchase and rebranding of the old loss-making Sun in 1969, through the soaraway-successful and often scandalous years of success under foul-mouthed editor Kelvin MacKenzie, to the phone-hacking disgrace of 2012 which put Murdochs business affairs under scrutiny as never before - this is the story of the paper that, for better or worse, redefined tabloid journalism.

[This] anarchic account... could be a script for Carry On Up Fleet Street. Alan Rusbridger, Guardian

The funniest book of the year, perhaps of the decade.Times

Splendidly racy.Economist

A story which social and political historians of the 20th century will not find easy to ignore.London Review of Books