Books written by John Simpson

  • Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
    Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang

    R. FULLER I hope you'll forgive me crashing your excellent party (1953). 2 intr. ... R. CAMPBELL The Zulus naturally despise the creeping Jesus type who sucks up to them (1934). crew noun orig US In hip-hop subculture: a group of ...

  • Speaking of Faith
    Speaking of Faith

    Again, going back to my British Museum visit last night, they were reminding me they were about to put on the most enormous Viking exhibition – if you want to think of people who have come to our shores and left their mark.

  • XML Web Kit
    XML Web Kit

    A complete XML publishing kit for Webmasters migrating from HTML who want to get up to speed on XML quickly. The featured books are "The XML Handbook, XML by Example: A Webmaster's Guide" and "Just XML".

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
    The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang

    Covers British, American, and Australian slang and includes a date the word first appeared in print, its origin, and an illustrative quotation

  • XPath and XPointer: Locating Content in XML Documents
    XPath and XPointer: Locating Content in XML Documents

    Explains how XPath provides a route for finding specific items within an XML document, while XPointer extends XPath to identify more complex parts of documents.

  • Unreliable Sources: How the 20th Century Was Reported
    Unreliable Sources: How the 20th Century Was Reported

    John Simpson turns his eye to how Great Britain has been transformed by its free press down the years.

  • We Chose to Speak of War and Strife: The World of the Foreign Correspondent
    We Chose to Speak of War and Strife: The World of the Foreign Correspondent

    These stories celebrate an endangered tradition.

  • The Word Detective: Searching for the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary
    The Word Detective: Searching for the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary

    In The Word Detective, an intensely personal memoir and a joyful celebration of English, he weaves a story of how words come into being (and sometimes disappear), how culture shapes the language we use, and how technology has transformed ...

  • Strange Places, Questionable People
    Strange Places, Questionable People

    In this autobiography, BBC foreign news editor, John Simpson reflects on his career.

  • News from No Man's Land: Reporting the World
    News from No Man's Land: Reporting the World

    In this, his third riveting volume of autobiography, John Simpson focuses on how journalists set about finding the stories that make the headlines.

  • Untitled Novel 2
    Untitled Novel 2

    OLD FRIENDS, NEW ENEMIES Jon Swift is in trouble again.

  • Twenty Tales from the War Zone: The Best of John Simpson
    Twenty Tales from the War Zone: The Best of John Simpson

    Drawing on John Simpson's acclaimed volumes of autobiography and hitherto unpublished material, Twenty Tales from the War Zone brings together some of the highlights of his remarkable journalistic career.

  • An Essay on Religious Fasting and Humiliation. by John Simpson
    An Essay on Religious Fasting and Humiliation. by John Simpson

    In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind.

  • The Wars Against Saddam: Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad
    The Wars Against Saddam: Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad

    The Wars Against Saddam impresses not so much by its urgency as its detachment . . . the book exhibits, not bias, but a proper perspective' Boyd Tonkin, Independent 'You can't really argue with much that John Simpson says - there is no ...

  • Snipercraft: Laying the Groundwork for a Career as a Sniper
    Snipercraft: Laying the Groundwork for a Career as a Sniper

    It's impossible to learn how to shoot well by simply reading a book, but you can definitely learn to make precision rifle shots with the help of what's in this book.

  • Moscow, Midnight
    Moscow, Midnight

    Government minister Patrick Macready has been found dead in his flat.

  • Undefeated Love
    Undefeated Love

    Once there, it's up to Mueller to keep both of them alive until their release date five years later. Can their love possibly become an undefeated love in that environment?

  • Alex and Clayton
    Alex and Clayton

    Determined to fill his time with more than chasing hot guys, he visits the local bookstore, where he meets Clayton. As winter sets in, the town is all but deserted, and Alex and Clayton find themselves together more than apart.

  • The Marines: The Full Book!
    The Marines: The Full Book!

    Both men are forced to make decisions that will impact their futures, and potentially out them to the entire Marine Corps. The second edition, titled The Marines, continues their story as they are given their first assignment as Marines.

  • Days from a Different World: A Memoir of Childhood
    Days from a Different World: A Memoir of Childhood

    I want to look at the whole of my childhood, the England I grew up in and my family.’ This is not a mere exercise in nostalgia, rather it is a journey through the England of the late 1940s in all its shabby wonder, which also tells the ...