Book info

• Title And Thank You For Watching
• Author Mark Austin
• Year 2018
• Genre Memoir

For over thirty years, Mark Austin has covered the biggest stories in the world for ITN and Sky News. As a foreign correspondent and anchorman he has witnessed first-hand some of the most significant events of our times, including the Iraq War, the historic transition in South Africa from the brutality of apartheid to democracy, the horrors of the Rwandan genocide, and natural disasters such as the Haiti earthquake and the Mozambique floods. Full of high drama, raw emotion and the sometimes hilarious happenings from the life of a veteran reporter, Mark Austin's memoir gives startling insight into the stories behind the headlines.

Thoughts

I used to love Mark Austin and watch his ITV news reports quite often, but not for quite a long time. I don’t watch the news anymore for self-preservation reasons so I didn’t even realise he’d moved to Sky. Anyway, this memoir covers his time at the BBC, at ITV and more recently at Sky, and all the various things he’s covered, including the difficult situation of his own daughter’s illness. I think the book veers slightly too much towards reporting rather than personal insight on occasion, but it’s really well written and easy to read and overall worth a look.

Rating: 3 / 5