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   Jul 12, 2022 · Preston chronicles Maxwell's all-encompassing rivalry with Rupert Murdoch--a battle that ruined Maxwell financially, threatened his sanity and lead, indirectly, to his death. Did Maxwell have a heart attack and fall overboard? Was his death suicide? Or was he murdered--possibly by Mossad or the KGB?

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3. www.bbc.co.uk › news › entertainment-arts-59868674Costa Book Awards: Robert Maxwell biography among winners - BBC

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   Jan 4, 2022 · A book about the rise and fall of media mogul Robert Maxwell has won best biography at the Costa Book Awards. Judges said John Preston's biography Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell, was...

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   Jan 5, 2022 · Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell by John Preston review. The extraordinary life - and death - of the media mogul whose boundless ambition included becoming Prime Minister reads like a...

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   Feb 2, 2021 · John Preston’s timely book revisits the extraordinary fate and fortunes of a larger-than-life media mogul. Robert Maxwell at a charity event in 1990, 18 months before his mysterious death at...

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   Feb 5, 2021 · John Preston, author of A Very English Scandal – the book on the Jeremy Thorpe affair – is widely considered the best man to handle the riotous subject. In the Sunday Times author Robert Harris writes that it ‘slips down as richly, easily and pleasurably as a tablespoonful of Beluga caviar.’

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   His latest book Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell was published to great acclaim in February 2021. It has been shortlisted for both the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Costa Biography Prize and is being adapted for television by Working Title productions.

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   Which Robert Maxwell book won Best Biography at the Costa Book Awards?

   • A book about the rise and fall of media mogul Robert Maxwell has won best biography at the Costa Book Awards. Judges said John Preston's biography Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell, was "epic" and "a unanimous winner".

   Costa Book Awards: Robert Maxwell biography among winners

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   Who was Robert Maxwell?

   • Judges said John Preston's biography Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell, was "epic" and "a unanimous winner". Jewish publishing tycoon Maxwell escaped Nazi occupation by fleeing to France as a teenager, later becoming a Labour MP and businessman.

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   How many Maxwell Books are there?

   • The book is roughly the 12th biography of Maxwell, the majority of which were largely published in the 1990s (one, a quite touching memoir, A Mind of My Own, by his long-suffering widow, Betty, who died in 2013).

   ‘Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell’ by John Preston

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   What did Maxwell do after he collapsed?

   • The collapse revealed that Maxwell had raided the cash in his companies’ bank accounts and “borrowed” the shares in their pension funds — including those of Mirror Group Newspapers. John Preston’s book Fall, a recounting of the life of one of the most extraordinary figures in British corporate life, is timely.

   Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell — death and intrigue, 30 years on

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   How does John Preston tell the story of Maxwell?

   • 'John Preston tells [the story of Maxwell] with great verve and the benefit of extensive interviews with, among others, Maxwell's one-time rival Rupert Murdoch... the portrait that emerges is more subtly drawn than previous ones' - Economist

   Fall by Dr John Preston | Waterstones

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   Was Maxwell a big figure?

   • He was a big figure then; for younger people, the only Maxwell they’ll have heard of is his youngest child, Ghislaine, tainted by her association with Jeffrey Epstein – and you can make what you will of the way she gravitated after the death of her dominant, domineering father to the sinister Epstein.

   Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell by John Preston review

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   Oct 28, 2021 · The meteoric rise and ignominious fall of mogul and swindler Robert Maxwell told with irresistible pace and verve from the acclaimed author of A Very English Scandal. Winner of the Costa Biography Award 2021. Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2021.