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The Pentecost Papers
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Gloriously inventive, wonderfully entertaining, wickedly knowing . . . Read it and revel — JOHN BANVILLE The unsung hero of his generation of novelists . . . Astute, funny and heartbreaking — TANYA GOLD Corruption, destruction, danger and murder: Welcome to the murky world of the...
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The sharply satirical new novel from bestselling author Ferdinand Mount which dissects the murky world of the super-rich.
The sharply satirical new novel from bestselling author Ferdinand Mount which dissects the murky world of the super-rich.
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Gloriously inventive, wonderfully entertaining, wickedly knowing . . . Read it and revel — JOHN BANVILLE
The unsung hero of his generation of novelists . . . Astute, funny and heartbreaking — TANYA GOLD
Corruption, destruction, danger and murder: Welcome to the murky world of the super-rich.
Timothy ‘Timbo’ Smith, part-time healer and self-styled security analyst, travels down the dark canyons of global capitalism, from short-selling scams in the City to the depleted rainforests of Brazil.
His accomplices in this irresistible safari through the late modern world are two reformed alcoholics, the lovely and brilliant Lee ‘Lethal’ Thorold, and her husband Professor Luke Deverill, a lecherous Oxford philosopher and caustic computer wizard. Their misadventures are followed at a bewildered distance by the played-out diplomatic correspondent Dickie Pentecost, who tags along mostly because Timbo is the only man who can cure his agonising back and is always one step behind the Machiavellian actions of those who precede him.
From the author of the searing satire, Making Nice, comes his most entertaining, perceptive and unflinching novel yet, lifting the veil on the seedy realities of modern life.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781526682727
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 17 July 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 44.0mm
Width: 170.0mm
Height: 246.0mm
Weight: 502g
Pages: 304
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About the Author
Ferdinand Mount is a novelist, essayist and former editor of the Times Literary Supplement from 1991 to 2002. As a political figure, he was head of the Number Ten Policy Unit. As a journalist, he has contributed regular columns to The Spectator, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Times. His novel Of Love and Asthma, part of a six-volume series, A Chronicle of Modern Twilight, won the Hawthornden Prize in 1992. He lives in North London with his family.
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