This is a diary packed with famous names & extraordinary stories. It is also rich in incidental detail & wonderful observation providing both a compelling record of five remarkable decades & a revealing often hilarious & sometimes moving account of Gyles Brandreths unusual life
- as a child living in London in the swinging sixties as a jumper-wearing TV presenter as an MP & government whip & as a royal biographer who has enjoyed unique access to the Queen & her family. Something Sensational to Read on the Train takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride from the era of Dixon of Dock Green to the age of The X Factor from the end of the farthing to the arrival of the euro from the Britain of Harold Macmillan & the Notting Hill race riots to the world of Barack Obama & Lewis Hamilton. With a cast list that runs from Richard Nixon & Richard Branson to Gordon Brown & David Cameron
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Includes:: princes presidents & pop stars as well as three archbishops & any number of actresses
- this is a book for anyone interested in contemporary history politics & entertainment royalty gossip & life itself.