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Mike Dash

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Mike Dash, the author of Tulipomania, Batavia's Graveyard, Thug, Satan's Circus and now The First Family, was born, in 1963, just outside London, and educated at Gatow School, Berlin, Wells Cathedral School, Somerset, and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he read history and ran the Cambridge student magazine. From there he moved on to King's College, London, where in 1990 he completed an unusually obscure PhD thesis describing British submarine policy between the Crimean and the First World Wars. Dash's first job, for which he was thoroughly unqualified, was compiling about a quarter of the entries for Harrap's Dictionary of Business and Finance (1988), a volume that he researched via clandestine meetings in a London Spud-U-Like with a college friend who had gone into banking. From there, he began a six-year career in journalism book-ended by stints as a gossip columnist for Fashion Weekly and a section editor at UK Press Gazette, the journalists' newspaper. While still at UKPG, Dash took a phone call from John Brown, the maverick publisher of Viz, who asked him to suggest the names of some possible magazine publishers with an editorial background and some knowledge of the newstrade, Unsurprisingly nominating himself, Dash found himself hired to take over the eccentric portfolio of Viz Comic and Gardens Illustrated. Dash's first book, The Limit (1995), was published by BBC Books and his second, Borderlands (1997) by Heinemann. He has since written five works of historical non fiction, all of them acclaimed for combining detailed original research with a compelling narrative style. Having written his first three books while still with John Brown Publishing, Dash has been a full-time writer since 2001. He lives in London with his wife and daughter. 'History doesn't get much more readable.' New York Daily News 'Dash writes with unabashedly cinematic flair, backed by meticulous research.' New York Times 'Dash captures the reader with narrative based on dogged research, more richly evocative of character and place than any fiction, and so well written he is impossible to put down.' The Australian 'An indefatigable researcher with a prodigious descriptive flair.' Sunday Telegraph 'Dash writes the best kind of history: detailed, imaginative storytelling founded on vast knowledge.' Minneapolis Star-Tribune
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The Best Fiction Podcasts for Listeners Who Love a Good Story

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    • Batavia's Graveyard

    • The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
    • Written by: Mike Dash
    • Narrated by: Guy Bethell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2016-11-29
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

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    • Satan's Circus

    • Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century
    • Written by: Mike Dash
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 2007-05-25
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

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    • Tulipomania

    • The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused
    • Written by: Mike Dash
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 2018-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

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    • The First Family

    • Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the American Mafia
    • Written by: Mike Dash
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 2009-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

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    • Satan's Circus

    • Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century
    • Written by: Mike Dash
    • Narrated by: David Ackroyd
    • Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 2012-07-10
    • Language: English
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