{"product_id":"off-the-record-a-novel-by-craig-sherborne-9781925603248","title":"Off the Record: A Novel","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA satirical novel by Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlisted author Craig Sherborne, \u003cem\u003eOff the Record\u003c\/em\u003e stylishly skewers tabloid journalism and male vanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCallum Smith—Wordsmith, Words for short—is a newspaper journalist of the old school. He knows how to write a story that sings, knows all the tricks of the tabloid trade. And he likes to drink with his colleagues, sometimes flirting dangerously with young women.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen his marriage blows up after a night of drinking goes way too far, Words is forced to leave the family home. Desperate to impress his estranged wife and feckless teenage son, he quits his job, taking a pay cut to work with a new online publication covering local crime. There, the plum role of editor will soon be his, he reasons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo Words, \"Honesty is a thief—it steals your life.\" Better to do whatever it takes to get back in someone's good books. And that is what he sets out to do, in a series of ever more calamitous, destructive, and amoral adventures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWill the irredeemable Words win back his family? Or is comeuppance around the corner?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46671145795820,"sku":"9781925603248","price":34.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/16357813482873.jpg?v=1752800827","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/off-the-record-a-novel-by-craig-sherborne-9781925603248","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}