{"product_id":"9780007459919","title":"The New Republic","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Shriver, Lionel\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 1 June 2017 by HarperCollins Publishers (HarperCollins Publishers Ltd) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 400 pages\u003cbr\u003e162 x 131 x 28 | 432g\u003cp\u003eA scalpel sharp political satire from the Orange Prize winning writer of We Need to Talk about Kevin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘A superbly witty political satire’ THE TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Edgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. Leaving his lucrative career as a lawyer for the sexier world of journalism, he’s thrilled to be offered the post of foreign correspondent in a Portuguese backwater with a home-grown terrorist movement. Barrington Saddler, the disappeared larger-than-life reporter he’s been sent to replace, is exactly the outsize character Edgar longs to emulate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘The Daring Soldiers of Barba’ have been blowing up the rest of the world for years in order to win independence for Barba, a province so dismal, backward and windblown that you couldn’t give the rat hole away. So why, with Barrington vanished, do the terrorist incidents suddenly dry up?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shriver, Lionel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50666421387448,"sku":"9780007459919","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9780007459919.jpg?v=1734744403","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9780007459919","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}