Splash!
A Novel
$29.10
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
4 October 2018
Summary
‘I thoroughly enjoyed Splash! It’s a delicious confection of excellent plotting, an inventively bonkers cast of characters, subtle insights into the world of newspapers and a satisfying ending which invokes the great Evelyn Waugh’s masterpiece, Scoop. A fine comedy of manners by a writer who knows the media inside out’ BEL MOONEY
Sam Blunt is a drunken, broken-down tabloid reporter, working for a once-mighty newspaper struggling to come to terms with the d…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472126344 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472126343 |
| Author: | Stephen Glover |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Constable |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 4 October 2018 |
| Weight: | 192g |
| Dimensions: | 130mm x 207mm x 17mm |
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Utterly brilliant and irresistible
Utterly brilliant and irresistible
I would recommend it to anyone without reservation … very funnyA proper novel - something that journalists don’t always manage to write. Society hostesses, billionaires, bishops, a newspaper baron, MPs, journalists noble and scurrilous: modern London life is there, fully realisedPotentially Splash! could do more for restoring public confidence in newspapers than sanctimonious leader articles from big publishers … Splash! might also remind owners and editors [of newspapers] of the public good they can do when at their best - The IndependentWritten in Waugh’s style, Splash! imitates his practice of giving characters expressively comic names … Glover clearly enjoyed writing it and I enjoyed reading it … Glover’s novel is an apologia for tabloid journalism and a celebration of its role in exposing corruption among the elite - New StatesmanBoth a terrific romp through the indiscretions, dodgy deals and Establishment stitch-ups of our times, and an invaluable reminder of just how vital the Press is in holding power to account - Daily MailVeteran insider’s sharp, timely satire on the newspaper business - Daily MailSplash! has the pace and wit of Tom Sharpe at his Porterhouse best and the mournfulness of Michael Frayn’s Towards the End of the Morning … captures the thrill of the newsroom - StandpointAbout The Author
Stephen Glover
Stephen Glover was co-founder of The Independent and the founding editor of The Independent on Sunday. He has worked as a columnist for the Evening Standard, Daily Telegraph, Spectator and Independent, and now writes a column for the Daily Mail and the Oldie. He is the author of Paper Dreams, about the founding of The Independent, and was editor of The Penguin Book of Journalism. Two of his short stories have recently been published by Amazon Singles.
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