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Splash! A Novel
Splash! A Novel
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Description: 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.
Title: Splash! A Novel
Author(s): Glover Stephen
Publisher: Little Brown Book Group
Barcode: 9781472126344
Pages: 272 Pages, N/A
Publication Date: 11/27/2018
Category: Humour
Description: 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.
Title: Splash! A Novel
Author(s): Glover Stephen
Publisher: Little Brown Book Group
Barcode: 9781472126344
Pages: 272 Pages, N/A
Publication Date: 11/27/2018
Category: Humour