The Rats: A White House Satire
Ros March,
disabled lesbian mum and former Royal Marine, has just moved to Turnberry on
Scotland's west coast. Her cottage overlooks one of the world's most famous
golf courses - Trump Turnberry - as well as the scenic bird sanctuary Ailsa
Craig. But idylls deceive. In truth Ailsa was once overrun by rats, who were
exterminated at the end of the twentieth century, and Ros's landlord turns out
to be a delusional Islamophobic misogynist who calls himself 'Potus Two'. When
Potus Two announces that both he and Ros will have the chance to meet the
President on Turnberry's hallowed grounds, Ros hatches a plan. Even a slim
chance to do something about one of the biggest rats in the world is not
something she will pass by.
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MBA
Why is so much of the world managed
by arseholes? When workaholic business school hot shot Ben Stillman is fired,
he has the chance to find out. Not a guy to sit still, Ben jumps head first
into turning his former business school into a world-class madrassa of
capitalism.
Ben has ten days to rescue the
launch of its spectacular glass tower, and his own career – ten days during
which he will have to confront terrorist plots, undercover police, the
extravagant demands of the super-rich, and the only woman who can save him from
this madness.
A satirical thriller, a love story,
and a wry look at modern management ideology all rolled into one – MBA is
a piercing yet hopeful enquiry into the meaning of success.
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Time
of Lies
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?
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Author Bio –
Douglas Board is the author of the
campus satire MBA (Lightning Books, 2015), which asked why so
much of the business world is Managed By Arseholes. Time of Lies,
his second novel, is a timely exploration of the collapse of democracy.
Born in Hong Kong, he has degrees
from Cambridge and Harvard and worked for the UK Treasury and then as a
headhunter. He has also had a distinguished career in public life, serving as
treasurer of the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund and chairing the
British Refugee Council.
As well as writing fiction, he is
the author of two applied research books on leadership, which was the subject
of his doctorate. He is currently a senior visiting fellow at the Cass Business
School in London. He and his wife Tricia Sibbons live in London and
Johannesburg.
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