About Guardian Shorts

Guardian Shorts is a series of ebooks from the Guardian, providing detailed guides to topical news stories, public policy, sports and cultural events. The ebooks demonstrate the best of Guardian and Observer journalism, with timelines, data and comment, curated and packaged for a quick, portable read.

Topics covered in the series so far include the phone hacking scandal, memories of 9/11, the Guardian and LSE's unique research project into the 2011 English riots, as well as lighter topics like a masterclass in writing fiction, the revival of Doctor Who and a collection of reviews of our critics' favourite albums.

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