Airhead

Page-turning new non-fiction * SheerLuxe * She offers insights into everyone from Donald Trump to Simon Cowell, showing them not just as what they represent, but as individuals with flaws and charm * The Press and Journal * She lifts the veil on the inner workings of the BBC, as she reflects on her long career as a journalist * Radio Times * A behind-the-scenes look at how news gets made * Observer * Fascinating . . . [an] excellent book * Mail on Sunday * Not an autobiography but a serious book about journalism, disguised in anecdotal chapters about her encounters with the great and the good and the rather awful . . . leads the reader towards a deeper understanding of an essential part of our culture: current affairs . . . this is a book that engages at every level * Daily Mail * Smart and Broadcast News-funny, Airhead is peppered with insider anecdotes you could only pick up working on the kind of big news stories that the journalist has covered for decades * Daily Telegraph * The irony of this riveting, enlightening and sometimes painfully honest book is that you couldn't meet less of an airhead than Emily Maitlis - a bold, fearless journalist, a splendidly probing and well-prepared interlocutor, and a warm, sharp and witty woman at the top of her game on and off camera. I'm just very disappointed there's only one chapter about me * Piers Morgan * Emily has a style that would make you enjoy her report on the end of the world. Absolutely irresistible * Jeremy Vine * A wonderfully sane book for our unhinged times * Simon Schama * A remarkable journey through the jungle of newsmaking. It combines razor-sharp analysis with compelling narrative drive and wit. A must-read -- Matthew d'Ancona, Guardian and Evening Standard columnist Revelatory, riveting and frequently hilarious. A joy from beginning to end * James O'Brien * Smart, funny and brilliantly told stories about what goes on behind the scenes of television news. A joy * Elizabeth Day * Airhead is, like its author, funny, wise, self-deprecating and insightful * You Magazine * [Emily] is so absolutely of the moment, a quasi-memoir could not be better timed. Airhead is a compilation of her greatest hits. And boy are there many . . . narrated in her snappy, chatty style . . . her asides are acerbic, her observations hilarious * Evening Standard * She is a superb writer, used to throwing together pacy, engaging scripts at a second's notice. Each chapter is dedicated to one of her interviews - it is a sort of greatest-hits compilation * The Sunday Times * Maitlis paints a vivid picture of the intensity and unpredictability that come with her assignments, which punctures the perceived glamour of life reporting the news . . . Her writing is excellent: precise, economical and accessible * Guardian * Maitlis has written a deliciously funny book about the high-wire act of broadcasting and the madness that surrounds it. Lots of famous presenters have written books but Maitlis' is different . . . Irresistible. She sounds great company . . . Her book's a romp * The Times *