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This Shrinking Isle

  • ISBN-13: 9781783342044
  • Publisher: GIBSON SQUARE
    Imprint: GIBSON SQUARE
  • By George Walden
  • Price: AUD $26.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 01/07/2021
  • Format: Paperback (198.00mm X 129.00mm) 192 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) [FA]
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Debut fiction by former Conservative Minister George Walden about Billy Sweetman, an amiable middle-aged drunk of an MP who one morning wakes up about half his size. In fact, as Billy discovers, the entire country has shrunk overnight. Billy Sweetman, a middle-aged drunk of an MP wakes up one morning as a dwarf. In fact, the entire country has been dwarfed overnight – but he is the only one who knows. He can’t tell his journalist girlfriend Anita, who would think him mad. As if a dwarfed population is not bad enough the country is also plagued by ‘The Bill’ that has the Little Englanders and Great Britainers at each other’s throats. Awed by his responsibilities, Billy stops drinking, smartens up, becomes a Minister, then Prime Minister. Will he be able to make a difference, though, as a miniature politician?

George Walden was Principal Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington before becoming an MP, speechwriter for Margaret Thatcher and Minister for Higher Education and MP for Buckinghamshire. Now a writer, he frequently writes in the national press. He writes novels under the

* Satirical novel in the vein of Julian Barnes’s England, England and George Orwell’s 1984.
* A slightly overweight MP awakes one morning to discover seemingly as the only one that his fellow countrymen have shrunk to Lilliput size creatures; it is too good an opportunity to waste.
* George Walden was a career diplomat in Washington, Beijing, Paris and Moscow before becoming MP for Buckinghamshire and a minister under Margaret Thatcher.
* Some of the previous praise for George’s fiction: Elegant. Jung Chang; ‘Compelling.’ Daily Mail; ‘poignant.’ Literary Review, ‘Thrilling.’ Spectator; Unputdownable. Jonathan Meades.

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