Bücher von Francis Beckett

Flavia has been poached from the BBC by a tabloid newspaper. Her brief, to dig up the dirt on her old friend, now Secretary of State. Mission accomplished, she hopes to investigage more serious corruption; but the editor and chief whip have other ideas.|3 women, 2 men

May 1945. Britain celebrates victory and cheers Winston Churchill.The people who fought the war want a better, fairer world, and only Labour is offering it.But the Labour Party is led by a nonentity --"a modest little man with plenty to be modest about." He says almost nothing. He sits in his grey suit and puffs his pipe.One wit remarked: "An empty taxi drew up and Clement Attlee got out."How can the insignificant, passionless little Labour leader Clem Attlee possibly compete with Churchill, and bring in a social revolution?

London in the future: third world poverty, tuc-tucs on the streets and an authoritarian tyrant in Downing Street.The Prime Minister addresses the nation during the blitz - but it isn't Winston Churchill.The Ghost of Christmas Past copes with the age of the internet.The strange premiership of Jeremy Corbyn.These twelve stories are about what might become of us - or what might have become of us, if things had panned out slightly differently.

Jeremy is a writer who is low on money. This changes when he contacts his ex-girlfriend, Ruth, and learns he may well be a father, so he needs to become financially stable. Proving it's not what you know but who you know, he soon has three important clients eager to hire him for some freelance editing. But is that really all they are after?