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Sarah Elizabeth Smith (born 22 November 1968) is a Scottish radio and television journalist with the BBC. She is BBC News's North America Editor, with responsibilities for reporting on all major news stories across the United States and Canada. She previously held the post of Scotland Editor, having joined the BBC in spring 2014 for the run-up to the Scottish independence referendum on 18 September 2014. She has presented the BBC Radio 4 Today programme. Smith has covered stories ranging from the United States presidential elections and the Madrid train bombings (for which Channel 4 News won an International Emmy in 2004), to the resignation of Iain Duncan Smith and an exclusive interview with Saddam Hussein's defence lawyer. Early life Smith was born in Edinburgh in 1968, where she attended Boroughmuir High School. She then graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1989 with a Master of Arts degree. Career Smith began her journalistic career as a graduate trainee with BBC Scotland. She spent a year living and working in Belfast for BBC Northern Ireland, during which time she was held at gunpoint by the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) in its West Belfast headquarters. In 1991, Smith moved to London as an assistant producer with BBC Youth Programmes, working on Rough Guide, Rapido and Reportage. Two years later she moved to news and current affairs, first as assistant producer with the Public Eye and Here & Now programmes. She then worked as a producer for the BBC on programmes as diverse as Newsnight, Public Eye and Rough Guides. On 5 News she was a reporter for two years. Smith was then the first newsreader on More4 News on Channel 4's digital television sister channel More4. She was Channel 4 News's Washington correspondent before moving to the post of business correspondent in the summer of 2011. Smith presented BBC Two's Scottish current affairs programme, Scotland 2014, alongside sports presenter Jonathan Sutherland. The programme first aired on 27 May 2014. She was appointed the BBC's first Scotland editor in November 2015, to cover Scottish news for a UK audience. In August 2017, it was announced that Smith was to succeed Andrew Neil as the presenter of the Sunday Politics programme on BBC One from mid-September that year. In November 2021, it was announced that Smith had been appointed BBC News's North America editor, succeeding Jon Sopel. Family Smith is the eldest daughter of John Smith, late leader of the Labour Party, and of Elizabeth Smith, Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill. She has two younger sisters: Jane and Catherine Smith. The John Smith Memorial Trust, on whose Advisory Council she sits, lists her as The Hon. Sarah Smith; her mother's status as a Baroness allows her the right to use "the Honourable" before her forename. On 22 September 2007, Smith married Simon Conway, an author, former British Army officer and co-chair of the Cluster Munition Coalition, on the island of Iona, where her father is buried. The service was led by Rev. Douglas Alexander, father of former Scottish Labour Party leader Wendy Alexander. In 2014, she returned to live in Edinburgh. References External links Sarah Smith at IMDb. Discover the Sarah Smith popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Sarah Smith books.
Best Seller Sarah Smith Books of 2024
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The One-Week Baby Sleep Solution
Contented Little Baby Gina FordGina Ford has helped thousands of families resolve challenges over the years and her bestselling New Contented Little Baby Book has sold over 1 million copies around the world. In ...
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The Boy with the Bookstore
Sarah Echavarre SmithWhen a baker meets the bookshop owner of her dreams, and he turns into her nemesis, they’ll both have to read between the lines to avoid a careerending recipe for disaster.Max Boys...
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Everyone Hates Kelsie Miller
Meredith IrelandToday Tonight Tomorrow meets A Pho Love Story in this whipsmart young adult novel about a girl who embarks on a “breezy road trip romp” (Publishers Weekly) with her longtime rival ...
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Your Wicked Heart
Meredith DuranA sexy and evocative Regency romance enovella!Jilted overseas and abandoned without a penny, Amanda Thomas is desperate to get home. She’ll do whatever it takes to secure a berth o...
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The Lark
Edith Nesbit'A charming and brilliantly entertaining novel... shot through with the lighthearted Nesbit touch' Penelope Lively, from the introduction"When did two girls of our age have such a ...
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Living With It
Bev AisbettThe classic guide for panic attack sufferers now fully revised and updated. Panic attacks approximately 5% of the population will experience them at some time or another. The dre...
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Mental State
Dr Mark CrossA manifesto about what's wrong with Australia's mentalhealth system and a guidebook for how to treat it, by a neurotic shrink who lives it every day.Psychiatrist Dr Mark Cross has ...
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The Girl from Venice
Martin Cruz SmithFrom Martin Cruz Smith, “a master of the international thriller” (The New York Times), a suspenseful World War II love story set against the beauty, mystery, and danger of occupied...
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Overcoming Perfectionism 2nd Edition
Roz Shafran, Sarah Egan & Tracey WadeHow to break the circle of 'never good enough'Striving for something can be a healthy and positive attribute; it's good to aim high. But sometimes whatever we do just isn't good en...
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The Matter of Black Lives
Jelani Cobb & David RemnickA collection of The New Yorker‘s groundbreaking writing on race in Americaincluding work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, TaNehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and morewit...
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Letters from the Dead
Sam Hurcom'Gothic, claustrophobic, and wonderfully dark' GUARDIAN on Sam Hurcom's Thomas Bexley novels...The next stifling, atmospheric gothic crime novel following one of the world's first ...
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The Science of Rick and Morty
Matt BradyExplore the real science behind the Cartoon Network phenomenon Rick and Mortyone of television’s most irreverent, whipsmart, and darkly hilarious showsand discover how close we are...
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Bright Burning Stars
A.K. SmallNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE: BIRDS OF PARADISE, STARRING KRISTINE FROSETH AND DIANA SILVERS. “A compulsively readable story. I was breathless and battling tears up until ...
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Resistance
Tori AmosNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA timely and passionate call to action for engaging with our current political moment, from the Grammynominated and multiplatinum singersongwriter and New ...
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Little Panic
Amanda SternIn the vein of bestselling memoirs about mental illness like Andrew Solomon's Noonday Demon, Sarah Hepola's Blackout, and Daniel Smith's Monkey Mind comes a gorgeously immersive, i...
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Selected Writings
Gerard De NervalPoet, visionary, shortstory writer and autobiographer, Gérard de Nerval (18081855) explored the uncertain borderlines between dream and reality, irony and madness, autobiography an...
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Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster
Terrance DicksCenturies ago, a Zygon spaceship crash landed in Loch Ness. Now, with their home planet destroyed, the alien creatures plan to take over Earth. Their most powerful weapon is a hu...
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The Soul Of Kindness
Elizabeth Taylor & Philip HensherINTRODUCED BY PHILIP HENSHER'Elizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth. As a reader...
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On Location
Sarah Echavarre SmithNothing like a rocky start between enemy coworkers stuck together on location to prove that love isn't just a ploy for ratingsit's a force of nature.Alia Dunn has finally gotten he...
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Doctor Who and the Ark in Space
Ian MarterThe survivors of a devastated future Earth lie in suspended animation on a great satellite. When Earth is safe again, they will awaken. But when the Doctor, Sarah and Harry arrive...
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The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
Dominic Smith“Written in prose so clear that we absorb its images as if by mind meld, “The Last Painting” is gorgeous storytelling: wry, playful, and utterly alive, with an almost tactile aware...
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Cheatgrass
Bart PaulThe followup to Under Tower Peak is another taut, fastmoving thriller that builds to an explosive, actionfilled conclusion.Under Tower Peak was acclaimed by the Wall Street Journal...
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A Wreath Of Roses
Elizabeth Taylor & Helen DunmoreINTRODUCED BY HELEN DUNMOREElizabeth Taylor's darkest novel . . . She writes with a sensuous richness of language that draws the reader down the most shadowy paths . . . Extremely ...
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Hard Winter
Johnny D. BoggsWeather and creaking joints permitting, Jim Hawkins could be found every weekend sitting in that rocker right outside the Manix Store in Augusta, whittling and spitting. But Jim Ha...
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The Book of Burnout
Bev AisbettAustralia's bestselling anxiety and mental health expert, Bev Aisbett, tackles a growing mental health emergency: burnout.Burnout happens when we take on too much, when we think we...
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Marilou Is Everywhere
Sarah Elaine SmithFinalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize for First Fiction One of NPR’s Favorite Books of 2019A SKIMM READS PICKA BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK"This novel reads like a miracle." NPRConsu...
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Can We Still Be Friends
Alexandra ShulmanCan We Still Be Friends is the debut novel by Alexandra Shulman, editor of British Vogue.It's the summer of 1983 and best friends, Salome, Annie and Kendra have left university to ...
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30 Days 30 Ways to Overcome Anxiety
Bev AisbettFrom the bestselling anxiety expert, Bev Aisbett, comes a proven and practical workbook to help people manage their anxiety, with simple daily strategies for work and for home. A c...
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The Mysterious Death of Tutankhamun
Paul DohertyUnravelling one of the ancient world's most infamous deaths...In this illuminating nonfiction account of the life and death of Tutankhamun, Paul Doherty tells the story of the bloo...
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This Is My Brain on Boys
Sarah StrohmeyerJane Austen’s Emma meets The Rosie Project in this quirky, irresistible, romantic comedy from Sarah Strohmeyer, the author of Smart Girls Get What They Want.Addie Emerson doesn’t b...
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The Weeping Woman
Zoe Valdes & David FryeWinner of the prestigious Azorín Prize for Fiction, the bestselling novel about love, sacrifice, and Picasso's mistress, Dora Maar.A writer resembling Zoé Valdésa Cuban exile livin...