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One of the most important political books of 2017' Guardian The best book about Brexit so far brilliantly caustic' Irish Times In 2016 two surprising explosions of popular contempt for the existing order drove Britain into Brexit & paved the way for Trump's presidency of the United States On both sides of the Atlantic proud regimes with global pretensions were levelled by justifiable revolts But in the name of self-government Brexit & Trump will intensify the authoritarian traditions of their outdated political systems The Lure of Greatness is a blistering account of how & why this happened The shadow of Iraq the great financial crash campaigns of poison & intrigue the filleting of David Cameron with the cold fury of a Remain voter these are just the start At the book's heart is the story of the institutional & constitutional implosion of the United Kingdom the farce of the sovereignty of parliament' a passionate account of English nationalism & the absurdity of the ever-increasing & insidious influence of the Daily Mail What emerges is a compelling summary of an EU in crisis the fateful absence of a viable left alternative the normality of immigration
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The Lying Game

'To read The Lying Game is to have your nerves slowly but inexorably shredded as over and again the tension builds and then evaporates until the final unexpected denouement' Metro'A gripping unpredictable narrative that shifts like sand underfoot and a plot that turns like the tide' ERIN KELLY bestselling author of HE SAID SHE SAID'Thank goodness for Ruth WareThe Lying Game is gripping enough to be devoured in a single sitting' IndependentFour friends One promise But someone isn't telling the truth The twisting new mystery from bestselling phenomenon Ruth Ware The text message arrives in the small hours of the night It's just three words I need you Isa drops everything takes her baby daughter and heads straight to Salten She spent the most significant days of her life at boarding school on
the marshes there days which still cast their shadow over her At school Isa and her three best friends used to play the Lying Game They competed to convince people of the most outrageous stories Now after seventeen years of secrets something terrible has been found on the beach Something which will force Isa to confront her past together with the three women she hasn't seen for years but has never forgotten Theirs is no cosy reunion Salten isn't a safe place for them not after what they did It's time for the women to get their story straight
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' To read The Lying Game is to have your nerves slowly but inexorably shredded as over & again the tension builds & then evaporates until the final unexpected denouement' Metro'A gripping unpredictable narrative that shifts like sand underfoot & a plot that turns like the tide' ERIN KELLY bestselling author of HE SAID SHE SAID' Thank goodness for Ruth Ware The Lying Game is gripping enough to be devoured in a single sitting' Independent Four friends One promise But someone isn't telling the truth The twisting new mystery from bestselling phenomenon Ruth Ware The text message arrives in the small hours of the night It's just three words I need you Isa drops everything takes her baby daughter & heads straight to Salten She spent the most significant days of her life at boarding school on the marshes there days which still cast their shadow over her At school Isa & her three best friends used to play the Lying Game They competed to convince people of the most outrageous stories Now after seventeen years of secrets something terrible has been found on the beach Something which will force Isa to confront her past together with the three women she hasn't seen for years but has never forgotten Theirs is no cosy reunion Salten isn't a safe place for them not after what they did It's time for the women to get their story straight

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