7/1 £500 Waterstone vouchers (quiz)

toniq

ive got ahead somehow with my comps, so im gonna recheck some of these,lol .

toniq

but the "novelist" part could refer to previous works,ill scan against that first to see as that was one a few had reservations on, so if we go down the ghost writer route, ill look at those first.

toniq

THE GHOST http://politics.guardian.co.uk/bookshelf/story/0,,2175291,00.html
this adds strength to the ghost writer theory.
thats a fiction work.
While Lang's political allegiance is never named, it does not take a huge leap of imagination to see this as a fictionalised attempt by Harris to stab Tony and Cherie Blair firmly in the front. Sure, as a political journalist, he was quite the cheerleader for the Labour leader. He has long been credited with having spotted the MP for Sedgefield's talents long before others realised his potential and during the 1997 election he was granted unprecedented access. He was even on the plane as the Prime Minister-to-be headed for victory.
But they fell out spectacularly, first over Blair's treatment of Harris's old friend, Peter Mandelson, when he was forced to resign for the second time in 2001, and later over the Iraq war, to which he was vehemently opposed

so if that is about a retired pm, now we need the one looking back as this would be forward.

toniq

Gordon Brown Prime Minister http://astore.amazon.co.uk/gp/detail.html?tag=iaindalesdiar-21&linkCode=sb1&camp=2378&creative=8446&asin=000725962X
k, i think i sussed it, this book above is a ghost written book about gordon brown,
thats the looking forward, blair is the looking back!
then again lol it could be totally wrong.

kirsteenatom

I hate to say it but Chesil Beach has a publication date of 2008 according to the Waterstones website.

Kirsteen

merlindog

lou031205 wrote: »

I'm pretty sure that the answers to 1 can't be right, as they are non-fiction works, and the question states "novelists", which is why I thought of Ghost Writer.

Hi everyone
only just joined the forum as I found this post last night.
Do you mean The Ghost by Robert Harris? I've been searching for books by novelists about or based on Blair and that is the only one I've managed to find so far.

merlindog

kirsteenatom wrote: »

I hate to say it but Chesil Beach has a publication date of 2008 according to the Waterstones website.

Kirsteen

The Guardian book shop web site has its publication date as 05/04/2007 so maybe the Waterstones date is for a new edition or they have just made a typo

yully

kirsteenatom wrote: »

I hate to say it but Chesil Beach has a publication date of 2008 according to the Waterstones website.

Kirsteen

I think that's because it's just been released in paperback but i bought the hardback last year.

NOSONDDU

merlindog wrote: »

Hi everyone
only just joined the forum as I found this post last night.
Do you mean The Ghost by Robert Harris? I've been searching for books by novelists about or based on Blair and that is the only one I've managed to find so far.

welcome, hope you enjoy it.

Robert Harris was a journalist - so he qualifies

the word Ghost is now there and that ties in with the clue.

So have we agreed on the other one?

kirsteenatom

The book cover is driving me crazy - I have looked through about 75 pages of books on the waterstones site and not seen anything yet - I've searched under Asia, Sun, Japan, China grrrrrr