The Bootle Boy: an untidy life in news

About Les Hinton

Les Hinton was born in Bootle Merseyside in 1944 the son of a British Army sergeant. For the first 15 years of his life he lived in Egypt Eritrea Libya Germany Singapore and numerous places in Britain. In 1959 his family emigrated to Adelaide South Australia where he became a copy boy in a small evening newspaper owned by a rising young publisher Rupert Murdoch. In the next 52 years as Murdoch grew his empire Hinton travelled the world first as a correspondent later as one of Murdochs most senior executives. He lives with his wife Kath in New York and London. This is his first book.