{"product_id":"9780007459919","title":"The New Republic","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Shriver, Lionel \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 28\/03\/2013,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 400 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780007459919,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA scalpel sharp political satire from the Orange Prize winning writer of We Need to Talk about Kevin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘A superbly witty political satire’ THE TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Edgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. Leaving his lucrative career as a lawyer for the sexier world of journalism, he’s thrilled to be offered the post of foreign correspondent in a Portuguese backwater with a home-grown terrorist movement. Barrington Saddler, the disappeared larger-than-life reporter he’s been sent to replace, is exactly the outsize character Edgar longs to emulate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘The Daring Soldiers of Barba’ have been blowing up the rest of the world for years in order to win independence for Barba, a province so dismal, backward and windblown that you couldn’t give the rat hole away. So why, with Barrington vanished, do the terrorist incidents suddenly dry up?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697928732716,"sku":"9780007459919","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780007459919.jpg?v=1722607559","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780007459919","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}