Here at Biteback, we always knew that Daniel Kawczynski was a literary colossus: his book, Seeking Gaddafi, is a fascinating portrait of one of the most controversial – and, let’s face it, blimmin’ mental – figures in modern time. Daniel’s thoughts and analysis in the book are underpinned by a combination of research conducted whilst residing in sunny Shropshire and information gleaned from his travels to Libya, during which he worked his socks off trying to gain access to the mentalist himself.
And they’re rather large socks, it turns out. For Daniel Kawczynski, the Daily Mail reports today, stands at a staggering 6ft 9in tall – a fact which possibly contributed to his difficulty in gaining access to Gaddafi, who is notoriously self-conscious about his own stature. The big D is so tall, the Mail says, that he even campaigned a few years ago for new building regulations to have all doors built 7ft high as standard. Unfortunately the campaign was unsuccessful, but banging his head on so many door frames luckily doesn’t seem to have blunted his literary largesse, as evidenced by his titanic of a book: Seeking Gaddafi, priced £20
The Daily Mail‘s Annabel Venning looks at the secrets exposed by Michael Smith in his new book SIX: A History of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service:
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