JOHN SWEENEY

This book is not your usual whitewash. Irreverent, hilarious and surprising, Wayne Rooney: Boots of Gold is a tarts-and-all biography of Englands most famous sportsman and an exposé of the iniquities of some of those who have sought their pound of flesh from his celebrity. Short-tempered and sweary he may be, but theres no doubting Rooneys passion for the beautiful game. But who is the real Wayne Rooney? On the one hand there was the disastrous World Cup in 2010, sex scandals and the unedifying spectacle of his grotesque contract negotiations with Manchester United; on the other, unprecedented success as the best British footballer of his time. On form, hes an unstoppable force, and the jewel in the crown of one of the most powerful club sides in history. But then theres the infamous entourage: a controversial agent, a crooked lawyer, tarts and gangsters, all attracted to the fabulous money Rooney gets for kicking a pigs bladder around a field. Wayne Rooney: Boots of Gold charts the rise and fall - and rise and fall again - of footballs most intriguing star.

Weather, Climate and Climate Change: an integrated approach provides an up-to-date and accessible analysis of one of the most crucial and contentious issues facing the world today - the processes and consequences of natural and human induced changes the structure and function of the climate system. The theory of, and evidence for, climate change forms a central role in the text along with how weather and climate impacts on environment and society. Examining the issues as a continuum, the authors present an argument that is both highly topical and contextualised for students and academics alike.

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THE UNPUTDOWNABLE TRUE STORY OF THE RISE AND FALL OF EPSTEINS ACCOMPLICE GHISLAINE MAXWELL: A MUST-READ FOR ANYONE FOLLOWING THE EPSTEIN FILES Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess who suffered a tragedy, the death of her father, a war hero, a philanthropist, a good man, in suspicious circumstances. She fled to New York where she made a new life with a brilliant mathematician. Her name is Ghislaine Maxwell and her lover was Jeffrey Epstein. Through Jeffrey, and her family name, Ghislaine became friends with some of the most powerful people on earth, ex-President Bill Clinton and President-to-be Donald Trump and the second son of the Queen of England, Prince Andrew, the Duke of York . . .But this is no fairy tale, and no one lived happily ever after. Hunting Ghislaine sets out the other side of the story, and its one of the darkest you will ever read.Ghislaines father, Robert Maxwell, was a sadist, a war criminal, a monster. His cruelty deformed Ghislaine Maxwell long before she met Jeffrey Epstein. Her one-time lover was convicted for being a paedophile. So Ghislaines life has been spent serving not one monster but two.In Hunting Ghislaine, legendary investigative journalist John Sweeney uncovers the truth behindthis dark horror story.

Murder in the Gulag is brilliant journalistic writing: punchy, eloquent, page-turning and factual. Its a powerful reminder of what an extraordinary man Navalny was - Roland Oliphant, TelegraphIn this revised and updated paperback edition, award-winning journalist John Sweeney goes behind the headlines to investigate what really happened to Alexei Navalny in the freezing Polar Wolf penal colony in a remote part of Siberia in February 2024. This is a warts-and-all portrayal of the highly charismatic but controversial Russian opposition leader who at one time flirted with the far right. Murder in the Gulag lifts the lid on the reality of life in Russia today and asks what Navalnys death means for the future of Putin, Russia and the West.

North Korea is like no other tyranny on earth. It is Orwells 1984 made reality.The regime controls the flow of information to its citizens, pouring relentless propaganda through omnipresent loud speakers. Free speech is an illusion: one word out of line and the gulag awaits. State spies are everywhere, ready to punish disloyalty and the slightest sign of discontent.You must bow to Kim Il Sung, the Eternal Leader and to his son, Generalissimo Kim Jong Il. Worship the dead and then hail the living, the Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un.North Koreans are told their home is the greatest nation on earth. Big Brother is always watching.Posing as a university professor, award-winning BBC journalist John Sweeney travelled undercover to gain unprecedented access to the worlds most secret state. Drawing on his own experiences and his extensive interviews with defectors and other key witnesses, North Korea Undercover pulls back the curtain, providing a rare insight into life there today, examining the countrys troubled history and addressing important questions about its uncertain future.Sweeneys highly engaging, authoritative account illuminates the dark side of the Hermit Kingdom and challenges the Wests perception of this paranoid nationalist state.

NOW UPDATED WITH FOUR NEW CHAPTERSKiller in the Kremlin traces Putins bloody career... a life littered with corpsesTHE TIMESAn extraordinarily prescient and fascinating book NIHAL ARTHANAYAKEA gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putins tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events that led to his invasion of Ukraine and his assault on Europe. In Killer in the Kremlin, award-winning journalist John Sweeney takes readers from the heart of Putins Russia to the killing fields of Chechnya, to the embattled cities of an invaded Ukraine.In a disturbing expose of Putins sinister ambition, Sweeney draws on thirty years of his own reporting - from the Moscow apartment bombings to the atrocities committed by the Russian Army in Chechnya, to the annexation of Crimea and a confrontation with Putin over the shooting down of flight MH17 - to understand the true extent of Putins long war.Drawing on eyewitness accounts and compelling testimony from those who have suffered at Putins hand, we see the heroism of the Russian opposition, the bravery of the Ukrainian resistance, and the brutality with which the Kremlin responds to such acts of defiance, assassinating or locking away its critics, and stopping at nothing to achieve its imperialist aims.In the midst of one of the darkest acts of aggression in modern history - Russias invasion of Ukraine - this book shines a light on Putins rule and poses urgent questions about how the world must respondPraise for John Sweeney:The evil dwarf-president is merely another one of those damn fool misfits like that scrappy little Stalin, or wee little Lenin.BORIS NEMTSOV, ASSASSINATED RUSSIAN OPPOSITION LEADERVivid, harrowing and urgently personal DAILY MAIL No one in the world will forgive you for killing peaceful peopleVOLODYMYR ZELENSKIY, PRESIDENT OF UKRAINEThis swashbuckling book is a furious attack on the Russian president THE TIMESPutin is the main war criminal of the 21st centuryIRYNA VENEDIKTOVA, UKRAINES PROSECUTOR-GENERALWords have power, Putin is afraid of the truth, I have always said thatALEXEI NAVALNY, LEADER OF THE RUSSIAN OPPOSITIONA dictator, bent on rebuilding an empire, will never erase the peoples love for liberty. This man cannot remain in powerJOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATESExamines the sins of the Russian leaders regime iPAPERInstant Sunday Times bestseller, March 2023

Brought to you by Penguin.Aiden Aslin joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018, compelled to defend his adopted homeland from the growing threat of Russian invasion. In February 2022, as Russia mounted a full-scale offensive, Aiden and his unit were stationed at the frontline at Mariupol.Pinned down at a Mariupol steelworks, after a month-long siege and running out of supplies, Aiden was part of the mass surrender of over a thousand Ukrainian troops, in April 2022. Then his real ordeal began.Singled out for his British passport, Aiden was interrogated, tortured, stabbed, turned into a propaganda zombie, tried by a kangaroo court and then sentenced to death. A victim of a catalogue of abuses of international law, Aiden struggled to cling on to any hope of survival. Certain that he was going to be executed, he was eventually freed in a prisoner exchange and permitted to return home.In Putins Prisoner, Aiden will tell the full, harrowing story of his time fighting in Putins war, of his six months in Russian captivity, and of his hardened resolve to defend the freedoms of the people of Ukraine.2023 Aiden Aslin & John Sweeney (P)2023 Penguin Audio