Spin by Martin Sixsmith
It’s the year 2011. The Party in power, the New Project Party is on a moral revival campaign and Selwyn Knox, the recently appointed minister for the Department for Society, is at its helm. Sonya Mair, his political adviser, is helping him call the shots – as well as helping him with some more personal matters . . . Together they’ve selected the team. Very carefully. In fact, they’ve got dossiers on every last member . . . Sir Robert Nottridge, Permanent Secretary: Eton, Cambridge, married, no children – or so his wife thinks. Christopher Brody, director of policy: a helpless gambler with debts up to his eyeballs and two mortgages. Nigel Tonbridge, director of strategy and communications: ex-journo and keeper of some dark family secrets – as well as some disturbing political ones that might just taint Saint Selwyn . . . But for now, the team better do as they’re told, and get down to administering morality. Meanwhile, back at Downing Street, PM Andy Sheen is suffering a few smears of his own, and his right hand man, Charlie McDonald, must quickly dispatch an official to Cambridge to “rescue data” and hunt down the man behind the allegations . . .
MARTIN SIXSMITH was born in Cheshire and educated at Oxford, Harvard and the Sorbonne. From 1980 to 1997 he worked for the BBC as the Corporation's correspondent in Moscow, Washington, Brussels and Warsaw. From 1997 to 2002 he worked for the Government as Director of Communications and Press Secretary first to Harriet Harman, then to Alistair Darling and finally to Stephen Byers. He is now a writer, presenter and journalist. He is the author of two novels, Spin and I Heard Lenin Laugh, and several works of non-fiction, including Philomena, first published in 2009 as The Lost Child of Philomena Lee, which is the basis for Stephen Frears' acclaimed film, Philomena, starring Steve Coogan (playing the author) and Judi Dench. He lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781405047333 |
| ISBN 10 | 140504733X |
| Title | Spin |
| Author | Martin Sixsmith |
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| Binding type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2004-04-16 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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