VJ Books Presents Author Jonathan Freedland (aka Sam Bourne)!
 Sam Bourne is the pseudonym of Jonathan Freedland, an award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster. He served for four years as the Guardian's Washington Correspondent and the US remains an area of specialist interest, along with the politics of Britain and the Middle East. Earlier in his career, he worked as a reporter for the Washington Post, for BBC News - chiefly for Radio 4's Today and World at One programmes but also for Radio 1's Newsbeat - and for the Sunday Correspondent newspaper.
He is the author of seven books, two of them non-fiction under his own name. The first, Bring Home the Revolution, was both acclaimed, winning a Somerset Maugham Award, and controversial: it argued that Britain was in dire need of a constitutional and cultural overhaul, one that could learn much from America. The book was later adapted into a TV series for BBC Two. In 2005, he published Jacob's Gift, a memoir telling the stories of three generations of his own family, as well as exploring wider questions of identity and belonging.
Freedland first appeared as Sam Bourne in 2006, with the novel The Righteous Men. That became a number one bestseller in the UK and went on to win a Gold Book Award after selling more than 500,000 copies. It has been translated into more than 30 languages. It was followed by The Last Testament, The Final Reckoning, and The Chosen One. Pantheon is the fifth novel under the Sam Bourne name.
He writes a weekly column for the Guardian and is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's contemporary history series, The Long View. He is also a regular contributor to a range of US publications, including the New York Times, the New York Review of Books and the New Republic. In 2008 he was awarded the David Watt Prize for Journalism, and is a past winner of the What the Papers Say Award for Columnist of the Year.
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Sam Bourne Bibliography
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The Righteous Men - 2006
- The Last Testament - 2007
- The Final Reckoning - 2008
- The Chosen One - 2010
- Pantheon - 2012
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