{"product_id":"9781472126344-splash-a-novel","title":"Splash! A Novel","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Splash! A Novel\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Glover Stephen\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Little Brown Book Group\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781472126344\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 272 Pages, N\/A\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 11\/27\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Humour","brand":"Glover Stephen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55960120590641,"sku":"IN-G-9781472126344","price":37.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781472126344-splash-a-novel","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}