Reviews for The End of the Street. The true story of Rupert Murdoch's coup against the British press.

'If you go to a casino and play the numbers game, as they did, and you lose, you don't go back to the casino the next day and ask for your money back.'

Bruce Matthews
Managing Director, News International

 

'You have become the mouthpiece for a ruthless and bullying management which regards all employees as cattle.'

Claire Tomalin
Former Literary Editor, Sunday Times, to Andrew Neil

 

“an extraordinary canvass.....her material, deeply detailed, fully documented …on how the company established the Wapping operation. Whatever the outcome of the dispute, it is unlikely that a better account will need to be written of it... Melvern’s story is gripping, highly dramatic... It is above all a reporters book, telling the tale...”

Philip Basset
Financial Times, November 1, 1986

 

“Someone had to tell the Wapping story quickly, and there was no one better suited for the job than Linda Melvern. She was trained and moulded on newspapers before the Return of the Proprietors, and the consequent collapse of journalistic standards”.

Paul Foot
The Journalist, January 1987

 

“as gripping as any piece of fiction.”

The Belfast Telegraph November 10, 1986

 

”... it tells an enthralling tale and provides a surprising amount of new material”

JWM Thompson
Literary Review