The Inalienable Right by Adam Macqueen

The Inalienable Right by Adam Macqueen

When Margaret Thatcher introduced S.28, ex-rent boy Tommy Wildeblood discovers secrets that could stop the new law in its tracks. Blending history with 'what if' fiction, Adam Macqueen lifts the lid on the '80s political establishment's murkiest secrets.

'Wildeblood is a thoroughly likeable hero' Mail on Sunday

'The kind of book I wish I'd written' Jonathan Harvey

'Macqueen has created a really memorable main character: brave, clever and brimming with moral indignation, but also vulnerable' John Preston, The Critic

Praise for the Tommy Wildeblood series

'A wonderfully evocative walk on the wild side of 1970s London, Beneath the Streets is darkly comic and deeply movingA breathtaking, heartbreaking thriller' Jake Arnott

'Really well done. The detail and the authenticity is all there: London as a really scary, edgy, ugly place. The atmosphere is brilliant... As a portrait of a world I thought it was really fantastic, and I also read it with my computer by my side because I was constantly looking up the real-life figures and I was constantly shocked and amazed by how much of this is true' David Nicholls

'A f***ing fantastic read. A gripping what-if thriller, packed with vivid period detail and page-turning twists. To find myself actually making an appearance in the final chapter was just cream on the cake' Tom Robinson

'A page-turning mystery, skilfully plotted and filled with tension, Beneath The Streets lifts the lid on 1970s subculture to spine-tingling effect' Paul Burston

'A thrilling and brilliantly imaginative novel. It takes you into the secret world of Soho in the 1970s. But then suddenly it opens another door into the hidden world of violence and corruption that still lies underneath the England we know today' Adam Curtis

'A gripping thriller, interwoven with a really important thread about the condition of being gay in the 1970s' Harriett Gilbert, A Good Read, BBC Radio 4

'What if Jeremy Thorpe had succeeded in murdering Norman Scott? That's the gripping premise behind this smart story of corruption, murder and establishment cover-up' iPaper, 40 best books of the year

'An accomplished and gripping continuation of Wildeblood's adventures [in] a grim 1980s bedevilled by Aids, Thatcherism and IRA bombings. Cameos by everyone from Jeremy Corbyn to Derek Jarman add texture and wit' The Observer

'Rent boys. Revolutionary communists. Frankie Goes to Hollywood. And a plot to blow up Mrs Thatcher' Popbitch

'Brilliant. Beautifully drawn. A superb final twist' Boyz

'This rollercoaster queer thriller is a cracking read: a complex love story, an adventure racked with radical threat and emotional trauma, an on-point political history of 80s social anxieties and protests, and a stonking good who-dunnit and who-dunn-what' Scene Magazine

Adam Macqueen is a senior journalist on Private Eye and co-presents its podcast, Page 94. He is the author of three counterfactual political thrillers featuring his ex-rent boy hero Tommy Wildeblood. His non-fiction books include the bestselling history of the magazine, and political miscellanies The Prime Minister’s Ironing Board and The Lies of the Land: An Honest History of Political Deceit. He has also been on the editorial team of Popbitch and The Big Issue. He lives on the South Coast with his husband, artist Michael Tierney.

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ISBN 13	9781785634055
ISBN 10	1785634054
Title	The Inalienable Right
Author	Adam Macqueen
Series	Tommy Wildeblood
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Eye Books
Year published	2025-03-13
Number of pages	418
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