The Fourth Estate

The Fourth Estate is a 1996 novel. It chronicles the lives of two media  barons, Richard Armstrong and Keith Townsend, from their starkly contrasting childhoods to their ultimate battle to build the world's biggest media empire. The book is based on two real life media barons - Robert Maxwell and Rupert Murdoch, who fought to control the newspaper market in England (Murdoch bought The Sun and News of the World and later The Times and Maxwell bought the Daily Mirror and its Sunday edition, the Sunday Mirror).

Under the Net by Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookles, and film stariets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a drifting, clever, likeable young man, who makes a living out of translation work and sponging off his friends. However, a meeting with Anna, an old flame, leads him into a series of fantastic adventures.