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Heather Brooke

British-American journalist and freedom of information campaigner; her requests and legal action helped expose the 2009 MPs' expenses scandal; author of Your Right to Know and The Silent State.

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Animal FarmBook George Orwell

recommended

It was a toss-up between Animal Farm and 1984.

Five Books interview: the best books on Holding Power to Account

2012-08-19·fivebooks.com ↗

Inherit the WindBook Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee

recommended

You can dramatise an issue through a play, as in Inherit the Wind.

Five Books interview: the best books on Holding Power to Account

2012-08-19·fivebooks.com ↗

All the King’s MenBook Robert Penn Warren

recommended

All the King’s Men is a fictionalised story based on real people, and Malan uses his own life story.

Five Books interview: the best books on Holding Power to Account

2012-08-19·fivebooks.com ↗

The White HotelBook D. M. Thomas

recommended

The White Hotel runs the gamut – it starts off with an erotic poem, there’s a short story, a pseudo-journal entry, letters, but overall it is a novel.

Five Books interview: the best books on Holding Power to Account

2012-08-19·fivebooks.com ↗

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