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i must admit i don't think we have found the future blair one yet - we have until 10am tomorrow morning, but would like to make a flaming deicsion and submit it now! lol0
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is The Ghost the future looking one? Look at what this says:
In imagining Tony Blair's future, Robert Harris goes some way to explaining the mistakes of his past. But shouldn't he have aimed for something more ambitious than a thriller?
in which case we should be looking for a novel about blairs past career.
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I think I'm just going to go with "The Blair Years" by Alastair Campbell for the second part of number one - it's probably not right but I'm tired and I want to get this flipping thing sent off for good!
Edit: although I've just realised that's the answer to another one, isn't it. Aaarrgh!
Edit 2: and he's not a novelist. Okay, scrap that one!Wins: Jan-Sept:£1991.27, Nov: "The Rough Guide to the iPhone" book, "FWD this link" book ... £12.98 :cool:
Win £2008 in 2008 number 60, only £3.75 to go! (it is highly likely I'll win absolutely nothing else now this year!
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we did mention Alistrair Campbells book the Blair Years but then discounted it, not sure why
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lol, just what i was thinking too!0
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The Ghost
The narrator of Robert Harris's new novel is a ghostwriter assigned to write the memoirs of a former British Prime Minister. But all is not as it should be; the ex-PM, Adam Lang, finds himself exiled in Martha's Vinyard with a war crimes indictment hanging over him. A previous 'ghost' had died in mysterious circumstances. And what of the shadowy right wing organisations that lurk in the background?
Lang, is a thinly fictionalised version of Tony Blair, a former friend of Harris, and much has been made of this and of other real life charcaters who are meant to crop up in the book.
If this is based on tony blair as an ex pm, then this is looking forward rather than back, isn't it?
Looking back, would be looking at his career as pm. Looking forward would be looking at what happens as ex pm
There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you - Beatrix Potter0 -
Okay, I've gone with "Blair Unbound" by Anthony Seldon, because it was reviewed on the Times site and seems as likely as any! Can't wait to finally send this stupid thing off!Wins: Jan-Sept:£1991.27, Nov: "The Rough Guide to the iPhone" book, "FWD this link" book ... £12.98 :cool:
Win £2008 in 2008 number 60, only £3.75 to go! (it is highly likely I'll win absolutely nothing else now this year!)
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ok i entered, i went with Yo Blair
Good luck everyone and thanks for all the hard work!!
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It's finally gone!!:D Thanks for all the answers everyone! Wins: Jan-Sept:£1991.27, Nov: "The Rough Guide to the iPhone" book, "FWD this link" book ... £12.98 :cool:
Win £2008 in 2008 number 60, only £3.75 to go! (it is highly likely I'll win absolutely nothing else now this year!)
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took me over an hour but my entry has gone as well, thanks for all the help, let's hope one of us will win something.
DIOLCH YN FAWR - many thanks
:hello: :grouphug:"Every day when I wake up I thank the Lord I'm Welsh" Cerys Matthews0
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