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Timothy John Marshall (born 1 May 1959) is a British journalist, author, and broadcaster, specialising in foreign affairs and international diplomacy. Marshall is a guest commentator on world events for the BBC, Sky News and a guest presenter on LBC, and was formerly the diplomatic and also foreign affairs editor for Sky News. He has written seven books including Prisoners of Geography – a New York Times Best Seller and #1 Sunday Times bestseller. He also released a children's illustrated version of this book in 2019, Prisoners of Geography: Our World Explained in 12 Simple Maps, nominated for Waterstones Book of the Year. Other titles include The Power of Geography a #2 Sunday Times bestseller; Shadowplay: The Inside Story Of Europe's Last War, and 2018 Sunday Times bestseller Divided: Why We’re Living In An Age Of Walls. Marshall is founder and editor of news web platform thewhatandthewhy.com, a site for journalists, politicians, foreign affairs analysts, and enthusiasts to share their views on world news events. Education Marshall was educated at Prince Henry's Grammar School, a state-funded comprehensive school in the market town of Otley, near Leeds, West Yorkshire. Career Marshall began his journalistic career reporting for LBC and was their Paris Bureau Correspondent for three years. He has also reported for the BBC and has written for a number of national newspapers. He was also the longstanding Foreign Affairs Editor and then Diplomatic Editor for Sky News. Over twenty-four years at Sky News, Marshall reported from thirty countries and covered the events of twelve wars. He has reported from Europe, the United States, (covering three US Presidential Elections), and Asia, as well as from the field in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia during the Balkan wars of the 1990s. He spent the majority of the 1999 Kosovo crisis in Belgrade, where he was one of the few western journalists who stayed on to report from one of the main targets of NATO bombing raids. He was in Kosovo on the day NATO troops advanced into Pristina. Marshall reported from the front line during the invasion of Afghanistan and spent time in Iraq, reporting on the country's transition to democracy. He has reported from Libya, Egypt, Syria and Tunisia during the uprisings across the Arab World. As Sky News Middle East Correspondent, based in Jerusalem, he covered Israel's Gaza disengagement in August 2005. He was also Sky News Europe Correspondent, heading up their Brussels news bureau and also regularly contributed to the channel's former World News Tonight international news bulletin (including as stand-in host). Marshall's blog, 'Foreign Matters', was short-listed for the Orwell Prize 2010. In 2004 he was a finalist in the Royal Television Society's News Event category for his Iraq War coverage. He won finalist certificates in 2007, for a report on the Mujahideen, and in 2004 for his documentary 'The Desert Kingdom' which featured exclusive access to Crown Prince Abdullah and his palaces. One of his most notable moments on Sky News involved a six-hour unbroken broadcast during the first Gulf War. He was the last journalist to interview Pakistan's Benazhir Bhutto ahead of her return from exile and subsequent assassination. Marshall's book, Prisoners of Geography, was released in the UK in July 2015 and in the U.S. in October 2015. He continues to broadcast and comment on foreign affairs and is a regular guest on BBC, Sky News and on Monocle 24 Radio's 'Midori House'. He is the founder and editor of thewhatandthewhy.com. Launched in February 2015, the site analyses world events and has contributions from writers from the world of politics and journalism. Personal life Tim Marshall is reported to be a supporter of Leeds United - on Politics Live on 22 February 2022, a Leeds United logo was visible. In his book Shadowplay: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War, Marshall says that he was supporting Bayern Munich in the 1999 UEFA Champions League final against Manchester United because he was a Leeds United supporter. Publications Marshall has written a number of books including: Dirty Northern B*st*rds – about the history of Britain's football chants (August 2014, Elliott & Thompson). The book was favourably reviewed in The Times, The Telegraph, The Sun and was "Book of the Week" in The Independent's sports section. It was dedicated to the memory of Sky News cameraman Mickey Deane, a longtime colleague and friend of Marshall's, who was shot dead in Cairo in August 2013. Shadowplay - Behind The Lines & Under Fire (The Inside Story Of Europe's Last War). A book which documents the downfall of Slobodan Milošević and contains Marshall's account of his experiences during the Yugoslav Wars. (Release: June 2019) Politics of place series Prisoners of Geography is an international bestseller explaining how a country's geography affects their internal fortunes and international strategy. This book became the No. 1 Sunday Times best seller, a New York Times best seller and during August 2016 was Waterstones 'Non-fiction Book of the Month' & no. 1 best selling paperback. It made the MPs Summer 2015 Reading List and received favourable reviews both internationally and in the UK (including in The Evening Standard and Newsweek). (2015) Worth Dying For - The Power & Politics Of Flags - is a book which covers the symbolism, culture and history behind the world's flags. Published by Elliott & Thompson (2016) Divided - Why We're living in an Age of Walls (2018) The Power of Geography - Ten Maps That Reveal The Future Of Our World (2021) The Future of Geography - How Power and Politics in Space will Change our World. (Elliott and Thompson. Released April 2023) References External links Tim Marshall on Twitter The What & The Why. Discover the Tim Marshall popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Tim Marshall books.
Best Seller Tim Marshall Books of 2024
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Antarctic Atlas
Peter FretwellA FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020SHORTLISTED FOR THE ESTWA AWARD FOR ILLUSTRATED TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022One of the leastknown places on the planet, the only continent on...
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How India Works
Aarti KelshikarAn article in the Harvard Business Review once said that the most valuable skill for the 21st century manager is the ability to work across cultures. Around the world, it is increa...
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The Proper Study Of Mankind
Isaiah Berlin‘He becomes everyman’s guide to everything exciting in the history of ideas’ New York Review of BooksIsaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century, and one...
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Mirror To Damascus
Colin ThubronA 50th anniversary edition of Colin Thubron's celebrated first book, a portrait of Syria's capital city, with a new introduction by the author.Described by the author as simply 'a ...
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In Search Of The First Civilizations
Michael WoodFive thousand years ago there began the most momentous revolution in human history. Starting in Mesopotamia, city civilization emerged for the first time on earth, to be followed i...
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The Rise of the Roman Empire
Polybius & Ian Scott-KilvertThe Greek statesman Polybius (c.200–118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen understand how their world came to...
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Possession
Peter JamesA terrifying novel of a young man who is willing to defy everything. Even death...Fabian Hightower has been killed in a car crash. At least, that is what a policeman is asking Alex...
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The Later Roman Empire
Ammianus MarcellinusAmmianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, and his writings rank alongside those of Livy and Tacitus. The Later Roman Empire chronicles a period of twentyfive years d...
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The Ten Types of Human
Dexter DiasThe inspiration behind the hit podcast THE 100 TYPES OF HUMAN with DEXTER DIAS and BBC 5 Live host NIHAL ARTHANAYAKE'This book is the one. Think Sapiens and triple it.' Julia Hobs...
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Murder Trials
CiceroCicero's speeches "In Defence of Sextus Roscius of Amerina," "In Defence of Aulus Cluentius Habitus," "In Defence of Gaius Rabirius," "Note on the Speeches in Defence of Caelius an...
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Russell BrandWith this first book in Russell Brand’s Trickster Tales series, the famed comedian, actor, and bestselling author delivers a hilarious retelling of an old fairytale favorite that w...
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The League
John EisenbergThe epic tale of the five owners who shepherded the NFL through its tumultuous early decades and built the most popular sport in America The National Football League is a towe...
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The Chosen Ones
Howard LinskeyEva Dunbar wakes in a large metal box. She has no idea who has taken her. She has no way out. She isn't the first young woman to disappear. And with no leads Detective Ian Brads...
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The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories
Stephen JonesWinner of the British Fantasy AwardSixteen rare terror tales not to be read at night! To sleep, perchance to dream . . . of horrors! Here are some of the stories that gave their ow...
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Philosophy and Life
A. C. Grayling'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven Pinker'An enthusiastic thinker who embraces humour, common sense and lucidity' IndependentFrom the eminent philosophe...
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Stand Up Straight
Major General Paul NansonTransform your mindset and your life with these 10 simple lessons. THE INCREDIBLE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Inspirational . . . Sandhurst helped me to discover my potential. ...
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Natural History
Pliny the ElderPliny's Natural History is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with often wild speculation, ...
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An Imperial Possession
David MattinglyPart of the Penguin History of Britain series, An Imperial Possession is the first major narrative history of Roman Britain for a generation. David Mattingly draws on a wealth of ...
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The Hidden Landscape
Richard Fortey'A very well written book about geology and geological history' Sir David Attenborough, The Times'I travelled to Haverfordwest to get to the past. From Paddington Station a Great W...
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Human Instinct
Professor Lord Robert WinstonFrom caveman to modern man ...Few people doubt that humans are descended from the apes; fewer still consider, let alone accept, the psychological implications. But in truth, man no...
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Landmarks
Robert MacfarlaneSHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZEFrom the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS'Few books give such a sense of...
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The Age of Unpeace
Mark LeonardA FINANCIAL TIMES ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Compulsively readable... An essential course in geopolitical selfhelp' Adam Tooze'Full of fresh and often surprising ideas' Niall F...
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A Short History of Power
Dr Jack Davy'You could not ask for a more eloquent guide than this book. Essential' Sathnam SangheraAn eyeopening book about how societies are designed to support those in power, at the expens...
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Buried
Elle CroftYou're trapped underground with a serial killer.Would you save their life to protect your own?The ArtistNo one knows who The Sculptor is. A successful artist, whose works sell for ...
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Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb
François-René de ChateaubriandThe most enjoyable, glamorous and gripping of all 19thcentury autobiographies a tumultuous account of France hit by wave after wave of revolutionsMemoirs from Beyond the Tomb is t...
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Prophecy
Peter JamesA game that turns to a nightmare ...Non Omnis MoriarI shall not altogether dieA young boy watches his mother die. A sadistic man dies in agony. Drunk students play with a Ouija boa...
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The Secret History
Procopius, Peter Sarris & G. WilliamsonA trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire's official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of Justinian proclaimed the strength and wisdom of the ...
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A History of Wales
John DaviesStretching from the Ice Ages to the present day, this masterful account traces the political, social and cultural history of the land that has come to be called Wales. Spanning pre...
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Lives of the Later Caesars
Anthony BirleyOne of the most controversial of all works to survive from ancient Rome, the Augustan History is our main source of information about the Roman emperors from 117 to 284 AD. Written...
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Rome and the Mediterranean
LivyBooks XXXI to XLV cover the years from 201 b.c. to 167 b.c., when Rome emerged as ruler of the Mediterranean.
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Red Badge of Courage
Stephen CraneHenry Fleming dreams of the thrill of battle and performing heroic deeds in the American Civil War. But his illusions are shattered when he comes face to face with the bloodshed an...
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Host
Peter JamesHow far would you go to live forever?Brilliant scientist Joe Messenger believes that people can be made to live for ever. Knowing the human body can be frozen indefinitely, Joe dev...
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In The Footsteps Of Alexander The Great
Michael WoodMichael Wood retraces Alexander the Greats amazing journey from Greece to India, searching for the truth behind the legend and experiencing the tremendous scale of his achievements...
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The Battle of The Nile
Sam WillisPart of the ALLNEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES Why was the Battle of the Nile so decisive in the French Revolutionary Wars? Why did the French believe they were unassailable? And why di...
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Faust, Part II
Goethe & David ConstantineIn this sequel to Faust, Mephistopheles takes Faust on a journey through ancient Greek mythology, conjuring for him the insurpassably beautiful Helen of Troy, as well as the classi...
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Hungry City
Carolyn Steel'Cities cover just 2% of the world’s surface, but consume 75% of the world’s resources’.The relationship between food and cities is fundamental to our everyday lives. Food shapes c...
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The Celts
Alice Roberts'Informed, impeccably researched and written' Neil OliverThe Celts are one of the world's most mysterious ancient people. In this compelling account, Alice Roberts takes us on a jo...
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The Other Sister
Elle Croft'WOW, just WOW, The Other Sister is a mesmerising, mind blowing psychological thriller that has so many twists and turns.' Amazon Reviewer, 5 stars'It's a great plot line and you a...
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Sweet Heart
Peter James'This book inflicts more shocks than an electric fence.' Daily MailCharley has a strange feeling when she sees the idyllic mill house with its cluster of outbuildings, the lake and...
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Small Island
Philip ParkerDiscover the 12 crucial moments in Britain's past that will answer the greatest questions for our future in this richly insightful and fascinating history'A richly entertaining can...
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The Frontiers of Knowledge
A. C. Grayling'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven PinkerIn very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past, and itself. But through ou...
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Borderlines
Lewis Baston'Thrillingly unique, knowledgeable, perceptive and profound' IAN DUNT'Extraordinarily perceptive and original' ANTHONY SELDON'Refreshing and important' RAFAEL BEHR'A lightfooted jo...
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The Lost
Mari Hannah'Nobody understands the many faces of cops better than Mari Hannah.' Val McDermid'Mari Hannah writes with a sharp eye and a dark heart.' Peter James'Thrilling, exciting and kept me...
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Rainer Maria RilkeWhile his old furniture rots in storage, Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris, with little but a library reader's card to distinguish him from the city's untouchable...