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|title=Play It Again: An Amateur Against The Impossible
|author=Alan Rusbridger
|publisher=Vintage
|date=January 2014
|summary=A year in the life of Alan Rusbridger, Guardian Editor-in-Chief and pianist, during which time Wiki and the News of the World leak. Fascinating.
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I’ve maintained for a long time that I’ll read anything, if it’s well-enough written. So it was with this fascinating memoir, even though it’s a year in the life of an amateur pianist, and I don’t play the piano – or indeed a note of music. I couldn’t even have placed the name Alan Rusbridger in his professional role before I read the book. A quick browse through the first couple of pages on Amazon revealed that the author could indeed tell a clear story: it is his stock-in-trade as Editor of the Guardian. And the book duly held me through a messy, interrupted week of bedtime reading.
My thanks to the publishers for sending this book.
Suggestions from fellow reviewers, which you might be interested to follow up include: [[Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks]]; [[A Diary of The Lady: My First Year as Editor by Rachel Johnson]]; [[The Cello Suites: In Search of a Baroque Masterpiece by Eric Siblin]]; [[Out of Print: Newspapers, Journalism and the Business of News in the Digital Age by George Brock]] and [[There Is No Such Thing As A Free Press by Mick Hume]].
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