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Robert Newman

    Robert Newman es un comediante, autor y activista político británico, conocido por su agudo comentario político y sus enfoques satíricos sobre temas sociales. A través de su escritura y sus actuaciones de stand-up, Newman profundiza en temas sociales y políticos complejos con una mezcla única de humor y crítica. Su trabajo a menudo desafía el status quo, impulsando a los lectores y al público a reconsiderar sus perspectivas sobre el mundo que les rodea. Con una larga carrera tanto en las artes como en el activismo, Newman se ha ganado la reputación de ser una voz que no teme explorar verdades incómodas.

    Sherlock Holmes
    Fatherhood
    Dependence Day
    The Fountain at the Centre of the World
    Toxic Sludge Is Good for You
    • Toxic Sludge Is Good for You

      • 236 páginas
      • 9 horas de lectura

      Toxic Sludge is Good for You explains exactly how the magic of modern PR transforms the favoured policies of the rich and the powerful into uncontroversial common sense. It is without doubt the most important book about the methods and objectives of corporate public relations ever published. Reading it will make life for the executives at Hill and Knowlton, Ketchum and Barston-Marstellar a little bit more difficult. And that can only be a good thing.

      Toxic Sludge Is Good for You
    • The Fountain at the Centre of the World

      • 320 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      Police and soldiers across Tamaulipas, Mexico's north-eastern state are hunting Chano Salgado. A reclusive young widower and political apostate, Salgado is forced to go on the run after he is persuaded to blow up the pipelines of Ethylclad, a sluicing operation sucking the local groundwater dry. schovat popis

      The Fountain at the Centre of the World
    • A part-autobiographical tale of paranoia, loneliness and sexual obsession, by one of the Newman and Baddiel comedy act. A drug-related murder in a Manchester pub transforms the lives of all the characters, including the angst-ridden hero and his girlfriend, a Romanian highjumper.

      Dependence Day
    • Fatherhood

      An Anthology of New Writing

      • 216 páginas
      • 8 horas de lectura

      This collection of essays is concerned with fatherhood. It includes disparate viewpoints—funny, poignant, and philisophical, and reflects on the first inklings of male broodiness, the nine months of pregnancy, and the moment of birth and beyond.

      Fatherhood