Stick It Up Your Punter: The Rise and Fall Of the Sun, Peter Chippindale and Chris Horrie (Heinemann). The tragi-comedic history of the Currant Bun...

Selling Hitler, Robert Harris (Arrow). The terrifyingly hilarious tale of how the Sunday Times was conned into buying the "Hitler diaries".

My Trade, Andrew Marr (MacMillan). A mixture of personal memoir and historical account of our British journalism.

The Rise and Fall of Fleet Street, Charles Wintour (Hutchinson)

The Essential Fleet Street, Ray Boston (Cassell)

The Good, the Bad and the Unacceptable, Ray Snoddy (Routledge).

Shock! Horror! The Tabloids in Action, SJ Taylor (Bantam)

Good Times, Bad Times, Harold Evans (Coronet). The former editor of the Sunday Times and The Times tells the inside story of Rupert Murdoch’s takeover of the papers in 1981 and how a year of broken promises forced Evans to resign.

Eddie Shah and the Newspaper Revolution, David Goodhart and Patrick Wintour (Coronet). It is now largely forgotten that it was Eddie Shah, a publisher of provincial local newspapers, not global media emperor Rupert Murdoch, who sparked the "new technology" revolution that saw the end of the stranglehold of the print unions, the exodus of newspapers from Fleet Street, the introduction of full one-the-run colour in papers and full scale riots on the streets of Wapping.

Press Gang: How Newspapers Make Profits From Propaganda, Roy Greenslade (MacMillan). An expose of the darker side of the press business since the end of the second world war by the Guardian’s media commentator.

AA Gill Is Away, AA Gill (Cassell). A collection of Gill’s journalism from his travels around the world.

Life On Air: A History of Radio Four, David Hendy (OUP). An academic account of the first 40 years of the world’s best radio station, written with privileged access to the corporation’s archives.

And Now On Radio 4, Simon Elmes (Random House). A celebration of the station’s 40^th anniversary, written for listeners whom, as Stephen Fry said, Radio 4 is the best reason for living in Britain.

Live TV, Chris Horrie and Adam Nathan (Pocket Books). The bizarre and almost unbelievable story of L!ve TV, the UK’s first tabloid television station, featuring News Bunny topless darts, bouncing dwarfs and bikini-clad Norwegian girls reading the weather (in Norwegian).

Panorama: fifty ~Years of Pride and Paranoia, Richard Lindley (Politico’s). The former Panorama reporter recounts the ups and downs of BBC TV’s flagship current affairs programme, the longest running of its kind the world.

All Our Todays: Forty Years of the Today Programme, Paul Donovan (Jonathan Cape)

This Is Today, Tim Luckhurst (Aurum)