The Good Listener. Helen Bamber: A Life Against Cruelty - Neil Belton
Neil Belton was born in Ireland and educated at University College Dublin. Since 1996 he has been the publishing director of Granta Books and lives in London, where he began a career in publishing, working as an editor for Verso, Hutchinson Radius and Jonathan Cape. This is his first book. He met Helen Bamber through John McCarthy and Brian Keenan, former Beirut hostages, when he edited Keenan's memoir, An Evil Cradling.
(The Good Listener. Helen Bamber: A Life Against Cruelty is published by the Orion Publishing Group)
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