There Is Life After Politics - Just Write a Bad Novel ; ...And Incidentally
Evening Standard - London › November 04, 2008
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AS A Downing Street spin doctor, Alastair Campbell was renowned for telling tall stories and stretching credulity to the limit. Now he has transferred his skills to writing fiction and the result is his debut novel, All in the Mind, the story of a psychiatrist who desperately needs psychiatric help himself.
If there is any justice in the world then Campbell's book would win a literary prize the Literary Review Bad Sex prize, that is. Clunky sex scene is piled on clunky sex scene, two-dimensional body upon two-dimensional body, and his observations border on the banal.See the full content of this document
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There Is Life After Politics - Just Write a Bad Novel ; ...And Incidentally
Ernest Hemingway observed it is much easier to write about what you know than what you don't know.
Campbel...See the full content of this document
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