Splash! (Hardback)

Stephen Glover (Author)

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Splash!

Splash!

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Splash!

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'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 digital age.

With the assistance of Benedict, an earnest though clever wet-behind-the-ears young intern on the paper, Sam grapples to uncover the story of the century which reveals the political corruption and cynicism at the heart of a rotten Establishment.

As they try to nail the story amid a series of capers, Sam and Benedict are frustrated by the self-serving proprietor of the 
Daily Bugle, various self-appointed do-gooders who want to rein in the Press, and Trevor Yapp, the malign and untrustworthy editor of Bugle Online.

Splash! is a satire of the Press and politics in a modern London peopled by a Chinese billionaire would-be press proprietor, a worldly bishop, neglected immigrants, a corrupt and plaintive Prime Minister, and journalists who are often most interested in doing one another down.

Yet however self-serving newspapers may sometimes be, Sam and Benedict are ultimately on the side of the angels as they battle to write their triumphant story.
  • Publisher: Constable
  • ISBN: 9781472126337
  • Pages: 272
  • Weight: 0.4
Stephen Glover was born in Shropshire, England. He is the author of Paper Dreams, the story of his experience as a co-founder of the Independent newspaper in the UK and as founding editor of the Independent on Sunday. He also edited The Penguin Book of Journalism. His first novel Splash! was published in June 2017. He has had three short stories published by Amazon Singles. Stephen has been a columnist in the UK for the Evening Standard, Daily Telegraph, Spectator, Independent, Oldie and Daily Mail. He is married with two sons and lives in Oxford, England.

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