Time of Lies
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Eye Books
Published:23rd Jun '17
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
`A milestone in dystopian fiction. The first post-Truth, post-Brexit novel. We are destined to hear more of Douglas Board' - Chris Mullin, `My book of the moment: Douglas Board is a truly talented satirist and has our Brexit era nailed' - Matthew d'Ancona, `This post-Brexit satire has you laughing out loud whilst ruthlessly dissecting our troubled times. A funny, exciting and provocative summer read for anyone wanting to reflect on recent political upheavals' - Wendy Alexander, former leader of the Scottish Labour Party, `One of the vanguard of 2017 novels set to tackle the state of the nation in the run-up to and after Brexit' - The Guardian
Post-Brexit, post-fact Britain needs a new kind of Prime Minister.
A milestone in dystopian fiction' – Chris Mullin
In 2020 the United Kingdom elects its own Donald Trump.
Bob Grant, former football hooligan, now the charismatic leader of the Britain’s Great party, has swept to power on a populist tide. With his itchy finger hovering over the nuclear trigger, Bob presides over a brave new Britain where armed drones fill the skies, ex-bankers and foreigners are vilified, and the Millwall football chant ‘No one likes us, we don’t care’ has become an unofficial national anthem.
Meanwhile, Bob’s under-achieving, Guardian-reading brother Zack gets a tap on the shoulder from a shady Whitehall mandarin. A daring plot is afoot to defy the will of the people and unseat the increasingly unstable PM. Can Zack stop his brother before he launches a nuclear strike on Belgium? And just what is ACERBIC, Britain’s most closely-guarded military secret?
A darkly comic political thriller, Time of Lies is also a terrifyingly believable portrait of an alternative Britain. It couldn’t happen here… could it?
‘A milestone in dystopian fiction. The first post-Truth, post-Brexit novel. We are destined to hear more of Douglas Board’ -- Chris Mullin
‘My book of the moment: Douglas Board is a truly talented satirist and has our Brexit era nailed’ -- Matthew d'Ancona
‘This post-Brexit satire has you laughing out loud whilst ruthlessly dissecting our troubled times. A funny, exciting and provocative summer read for anyone wanting to reflect on recent political upheavals’ -- Wendy Alexander, former leader of the Scottish Labour Party
‘A spirited novel’ * Financial Times *
‘There couldn’t be a more appropriate time to read this riveting satire that's so insightful it's scary. It's both funny and startling to see how close to the bone Board’s writing strikes’ * Buzz magazine, Book of the Month *
‘A milestone in dystopian fiction. The first post-Truth, post-Brexit novel. We are destined to hear more of Douglas Board’ - Chris Mullin || ‘A spirited novel’ - Financial Times || ‘My book of the moment: Douglas Board is a truly talented satirist and has our Brexit era nailed’ - Matthew d'Ancona || ‘There couldn’t be a more appropriate time to read this riveting satire that's so insightful it's scary. It's both funny and startling to see how close to the bone Board’s writing strikes’ - Buzz magazine, Book of the Month || ‘This post-Brexit satire has you laughing out loud whilst ruthlessly dissecting our troubled times. A funny, exciting and provocative summer read for anyone wanting to reflect on recent political upheavals’ - Wendy Alexander, former leader of the Scottish Labour Party
‘A milestone in dystopian fiction. The first post-Truth, post-Brexit novel. We are destined to hear more of Douglas Board’ - Chris Mullin || ‘A spirited novel’ - Financial Times || ‘My book of the moment: Douglas Board is a truly talented satirist and has our Brexit era nailed’ - Matthew d'Ancona || ‘There couldn’t be a more appropriate time to read this riveting satire that's so insightful it's scary. It's both funny and startling to see how close to the bone Board’s writing strikes’ - Buzz magazine, Book of the Month || ‘This post-Brexit satire has you laughing out loud whilst ruthlessly dissecting our troubled times. A funny, exciting and provocative summer read for anyone wanting to reflect on recent political upheavals’ - Wendy Alexander, former leader of the Scottish Labour Party
ISBN: 9781785630347
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 24mm
Weight: 297g
304 pages