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  • Recently finished two very different but equally entertaining books.

    White Tiger by Arvinda Adiga was fantastic, a worthy winner of the Booker Prize a few years ago. Disturbing and funny in equal measure and always fascinating.

    Also just finished Things Can Only Get Better, a memoir of John O'Farrell's (HIGNFY/Spitting Image writer) time as a Labour activist between 1979 and 1997. I'm looking forward to getting the sequel now.

  • Also just finished Things Can Only Get Better, a memoir of John O'Farrell's (HIGNFY/Spitting Image writer) time as a Labour activist between 1979 and 1997. I'm looking forward to getting the sequel now.

    Good shout. I really enjoyed it, sort of the Adrian Mole Diaries meets greenhell's posts.

  • I got the sequel at Christmas and finished it two days ago.

    It was clearly written for the most part before the 2017 election, and the reaction to his views on Corbyn being challenged is great. I won't give any more than that away because this one is well worth reading too. A weird cycle in the book is that he's steadily becoming both more middle-class and smug, but also more self-aware.

  • I love that description by the way. Bang on.

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