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The Making Of Mr Bolsover

The Making Of Mr Bolsover

by Cornelius Medvei (Author)

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    Hardcover 2014

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Synopsis

Name: Lynch, Andrew (b. 16.10.1958); a.k.a. 'Mr Bolsover' Career: civil servant, librarian, columnist, local councillor, revolutionary. Recreations: shooting squirrels, skinning rabbits, cooking with rats. Address: present whereabouts unknown; last sighted in South Downs woodland close to the A275. Professional Interests: cataloguing systems, hermits, badger welfare, troglodytes, revolutionary politics But a Who's Who entry can reveal only so much. Like all the great political lives - Churchill, Disraeli, Gladstone, Genghis Khan - Bolsover's is one of incident, drama and passion. From the calm of Uckfield library to the demands of high office, a life on the run and a final confrontation with the authorities, The Making of Mr Bolsover is a moving, epic tale of a modern misfit and a political biography like no other.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 160
 Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published: 05 Jun 2014
ISBN 10: 184655389X
ISBN 13: 9781846553899
Book Overview: A tale of a modern misfit and a sort of demented political biography from a brilliant writer

Media Reviews
A minor masterpiece of the deadpan... a very, very funny book... genuinely original and written with understated intelligence Sunday Telegraph Very funny and charming -- Kate Saunders The Times A brilliant parody... Blending the sublime with the suburban produces some of the best humour, and Medvei has it down to a fine art -- Stephen Coulson Lady An exploration of how myths are engendered as much as it is a whimsical satire of political ambition... Very much in love with the Sussex countryside that it so beautifully evokes... Assured, precise prose -- Philip Womack Literary Review a master-piece of writing -- Mags Fisk Nudge Book
Author Bio
Cornelius Medvei was born in 1977 and grew up in the east of England. He studied modern languages at Oxford University and worked for a time in China as a teacher. He is the author of the acclaimed novels Mr Thundermug and Caroline. He lives in London.