![]() Within five days it had sold more than 31,000 copies in the United Kingdom and had secured the number one spot for hardback non-fiction on The Sunday Times bestseller list. ![]() Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of A Modern Royal Family was published in August 2020 by HarperCollins. ![]() In 2020, Scobie co-authored a book about Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, with American journalist Carolyn Durand. He became royal editor-at-large at Harper's Bazaar and the royal contributor at ABC News, appearing regularly on Good Morning America and hosting the network's royal podcast, the HeirPod. Part of his role was reporting on royals. Career Īfter a brief stint on a British celebrity magazine, Scobie became the European bureau chief on the American celebrity and entertainment magazine Us Weekly, where he stayed for a decade. He studied journalism at the London College of Communication. He attended Magdalen College School and then entered the sixth form at Cherwell School in Oxford. Scobie was born in Wales in July 1981 and grew up in Oxford with his younger brother and parents, an Iranian social worker mother and a British marketing director father. Scobie's work focuses on the Royal Family. ![]() Omid William Scobie (born July 1981) is a British journalist and writer best known for co-authoring the book Finding Freedom. ![]()
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![]() ![]() MARTIN: at around 1900 or so, 90 percent of all black Americans lived in the South. She's expanded mightily on Langston Hughes' offering and the offerings of just about anybody who's studied and written on this remarkable movement of African-Americans from the rural South to places like Chicago, Harlem, Milwaukee, Detroit, Los Angeles, Oakland and Seattle. But Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson may have gone him one better. ![]() MARTIN: That's Langston Hughes, reading from his poem "One Way Ticket," published in 1947. So I pick up my life and take it away on a one-way ticket - gone up North, gone out West. LANGSTON HUGHES: I am fed up with Jim Crow laws, people who are cruel and afraid, who lynch and run, who are scared of me, and me of them. Why did they leave? Well, maybe Langston Hughes described it best. It became known as the Great Migration, the movement of more than six million people of African descent from the South to the North in a span of some 60 years. ![]() I was close to one of the vast waves of immigration that have done so much to shape this country, but these people were already here. It was bigger than the Dust Bowl migration. Now we're going to tell you about one of the largest mass migrations in this country's history. ![]() I'm Michel Martin, and this is TELL ME MORE, from NPR News. ![]() ![]() If you are not already a member of Audible, you can click here to enjoy your first book free!Ĭheck out the other pages on this site for more information on my Thomas Flashman character – the regency uncle of Harry Flashman made famous by Thomas Hughes and George MacDonald Fraser. The page has been running for around ten years and so there is a raft of detail on the earlier books.Įleven books in the Thomas Flashman series have been published and they are available in print and ebook formats from a range of leading booksellers (and can be ordered in many shops that do not stock them.) They are also available as audiobooks exclusively through Audible, Amazon and iTunes. I feature pictures and other background information on the characters and events covered. There is also a Robert Brightwell Books/Thomas Flashman Books Facebook page that you can follow for my books. ![]() Click here to order the new book in print or e-book from Amazon, (Also available from other retailers) While the citizens of Berlin are not troubled, Paris is soon under threat. ![]() Suffice to say that things do not go well. He is to join the French army on its march to Berlin during the Franco Prussian war of 1870. His first assignment sees him sent to Paris. Certainly, Thomas has similar personality traits. ![]() Those of you who have read my earlier Thomas Flashman series, may find descriptions of his grandfather familiar. I am delighted to announce the launch of a new series of books starting with Assignment Paris, featuring a fledgling war correspondent, Thomas Harrison. ![]() |