Fifty-First State [electronic resource]
Bailey, Hilary2012
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It is the year 2013. Britain is in a severe recession and poverty is causing mayhem. There has been a sequence of short-lived hung parliaments and, due to terrorist bombs, repressive measures have been brought in by the power-hungry Government which fall especially hard on British Muslims. Global security is also at risk when an election in Iraq brings in a fundamentalist government and it threatens to nationalize its oil. And the friendly partnership between the US and UK is over - destroyed by mistrust. After a new election is called, Lord Gott, Treasurer of the Conservative Party, receives large sums of money from supposedly legitimate sources. This helps secure a majority for his party and Alan Petherbridge becomes Prime Minister. Gott steps in to investigate despite a scandalous personal secret that might get in the way...
Main title:
Fifty-First State [electronic resource] / Hilary Bailey
Author:
Bailey, Hilary, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Hilary Bailey was a British writer and editor, born in 1936, died in 2017. She was the author of a biography of Vera Brittain, she edited volumes 7-10 of the 'New Worlds Quarterly' series and among her varied works are 19 books of fiction, including famously Mrs Rochester, the sequel to Jane Eyreand more recently, Fifty- First State (2008). She has just completed her latest book, and is now working on a drama, with Leonora Rose-Aqotu, centred on the life of Caribbean slave, Mary Prince.
ISBN:
9781448209316
Language:
English
BRN:
2762652
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