Welcome to The Daunt Debates
Francis Wheen is a prolific freelance journalist, broadcaster and writer.
His latest book Strange Days Indeed examines the peculiar decade that the 70s became. Here he chats with Will Buckley about paranoia, dodgy politicians and power cuts - and wonders about similarities with the state of things today.
His previous books include The Sixties(1982), Television (1985), The Battle for London (1985), Tom Driberg (1990) which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award, and the bestselling How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered the World (2004). Karl Marx was published by Fourth Estate in 2000 and was shortlisted for numerous awards including the WH Smith Literary Award; the Samuel Johnson Prize; the Orwell Prize; the Silver Pen Award; and the Marsh Award.
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Below Hilary Mantel presents her novel Wolf Hall, winner of 2009 Man Booker Prize, at Daunt Books - described as the great British Novel and by Hilary herself as "The book I was born to write".
