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Author's personal favourite now on kindle
Posted on: Thursday, December 08, 2011 / 17:00 hrs
Beyond the Silver River, a long out-of-print book based on my personal diaries which I wrote while I lived and worked in South America during the early 1980's is now on kindle. I discovered this thanks to a friend on facebook who wanted to tell me about another of my books that was on kindle. It now turns out all my books are now on kindle-except for Land that lost its Heroes and Spain: A Literary Companion.
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Jimmy Burns - Barca: A People's Passion
Posted on: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 / 00:00 hrs
FC Barcelona is much more than a football club- it is a social and political phenomenon.
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Jimmy Burns discusses Lionel Messi
Posted on: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 / 00:00 hrs
Watch Jimmy Burns discuss Lionel Messi
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Barca on Newsweek cover
Posted on: Monday, June 06, 2011 / 10:00 hrs
Posing the question 'The Best Team Ever? '. Jimmy Burns's writes the cover story in this week's Newsweek magazine published today. Closely examining FC Barcelona's Champion's League win at Wembley against Manchester United, the author of 'Barca', says this is the new 'Dream Team' and compares Guardiola's team to other greats like the Real Madrid of Di Stefano and the Brazil of Pele.
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Barca hits the airwaves
Posted on: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 / 18:20 hrs
The BBC World Service is dedicating a special programme to FC Barcelona in the run-up to saturday the 28th of May's European Champions League final at Wembley. The programme will include a wide-ranging interview with the author of Barca: A People's Passion, one of the works featured on this website.
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Spies: Author Talk
Posted on: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 / 00:00 hrs
Bestselling historians Jimmy Burns and Alex Von Tunzelmann talk about espionage during WWII and the Cold War.
Jimmy Burns is the author of Papa Spy, the highly acclaimed biography of Jimmy's father, Tom Burns, who served as an intelligence officer in Madrid during WWII.
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Jimmy interviews Boris
Posted on: Sunday, February 27, 2011 / 15:00 hrs
To mark this thursday March 3rd's opening of Battersea Park's Winter Garden by Boris Johnson, the mayor of London agreed to be interviewed on matters green. The Winter Garden is the culmination of a six year fund raising effort by The Friends of Battersea Park, the charity Jimmy helped set up in 1988. The interview is published in the latest issue of the charity's magazine which Jimmy edits.
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New book on Spain research: Bilbao Revisited
Posted on: Thursday, February 03, 2011 / 10:00 hrs
My recent stay in Bilbao is the subject of a blog elsewhere on this site. It was alsoeported in Althetic Club of Bilbao's magazine. An no, I haven't been recruited by ETA. I just love Basque food and wine, the company of friends, andd local football's deep cultural roots and enduring belief in home-grown talent.
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New edition of Hand of God
Posted on: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 / 00:00 hrs
Updated paperback edition of Jimmy Burns's international best-selling biography of the greatest player in the history of football
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Papa Spy paperback published on May 3rd 2010
Posted on: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 / 00:00 hrs
The critics praised the book as one of the best books ever published on fathers & sons, the spy world, and wartime Spain. It is now published by Bloomsbury to usher in its 2010 Spring list.
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NUEVO LIBRO A LA VENTA EN España
Posted on: Friday, February 19, 2010 / 00:00 hrs
Amistad, amor, traición y una misión secreta en la España de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El destino de cuatro personas atrapadas en una ciudad. Madrid, 1939, una ciudad destrozada por la guerra.
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Check out the mojitos and much more...in picturegallery section.
Posted on: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 / 00:00 hrs
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Barca-new edition
Posted on: Friday, July 17, 2009 / 18:00 hrs
Harry Potter publishers Bloomsbury are bringing out an updated edition of Barca: A People's Passion to celebrate FC Barcelona's historic season during which it became the new European champions.
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europe's oldest walk
Posted on: Thursday, July 02, 2009 / 00:00 hrs
It took more than eighty miles and over four days for Jimmy Burns to walk the Ridgeway, partly for fun, partly to raise funds for two of his favourite charities, CAFOD and the Friends of Battersea Park. It proved quite a challenge but a rewarding one.
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The Beauty of Rome
Posted on: Thursday, May 28, 2009 / 00:00 hrs
My Barca scarf was still hanging this morning where I'd left it a few hours ago, by my bed. I had left it there because I wanted to wake up and realise I hadn't dreamt that we'd beaten Manchester United and won the Champion's League, lifting the European cup only for the second time in our history.
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A Dream Final a View from the armchair
Posted on: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 / 00:00 hrs
I wish I could be in Rome this week but times are hard and I can't afford the £1,250 the shark community is asking for a ticket. A couple of rather cheaper tickets have come tantalisingly closer. Earlier this week, a couple were sent by guardian angel to the Penya Blaugrana Reino Unido
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Jimmy Burns - FT farewell party
Posted on: Monday, March 09, 2009 / 00:00 hrs
To celebrate his thirty years of life at the FT, Jimmy invited 200 family members, friends and colleagues to a party at the Globe Theatre's Balcony Room.
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Jimmy Burns to spend more time in third sector
Posted on: Saturday, March 07, 2009 / 00:00 hrs
Having liberated himself from having to service the 24 hours news cycle to write what he wants when he wants as a book author and journalist, Jimmy hopes to free up more time for his work for charities.
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Jimmy's gets a mention in the Guardian's Media Monkey's Diary
Posted on: Friday, March 06, 2009 / 00:00 hrs
No fewer than five FT editors including Lionel Barber, the present incumbent, turned out last week (Feb 26th)to say goodbye to Jimmy Burns, who is taking early retirement after 30 years as a foreign, war, diplomatic, political, labour and even spooks correspondent for the Pink 'Un.
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Jimmy Burns leave the Financial Times after thirty years
Posted on: Thursday, February 26, 2009 / 00:00 hrs
After thirty years with the Financial Times, Jimmy Burns has left the staff of the newspaper to free-himself up for new book projects and writing across the world of journalism
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Upcoming events with Jimmy Burns
Posted on: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 / 00:00 hrs
March 2009
Bloomsbury authors' quiz
Cambridge University, speaking engagement. Subject: media and the intelligence world.
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