This afternoon has been pretty darn exciting for the Biteback team. Not only did we have a stationary delivery (woop!), but we also caught a clip of Michael Smith, author of Six: A History of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service and one of Biteback’s commissioning editors talking about Libya on Sky News, all whilst watching the Spooks team film a fight scene outside our office window. Phew!
And then, when it looks like the day just can’t get any better, comes the real cherry on the cake of excitement: Francis Beckett’s The Prime Ministers Who Never Were is now officially available in eBook format and can be downloaded for just £9.20, from here. And this morning, Biteback’s biggest fan – Mark Pack from Lib Dem Voice – even posted a rather complimentary review of this collection of political counterfactuals.
Our eminently well-read and knowledgeable reviewer says, and he should know, that ‘serious counter-factuals by experts in a field are rather rare’, but that thanks to this publication’s ‘heavyweight list of contributors’, combined with ‘strikingly original’ ideas, The Prime Ministers Who Never Were is an authoritative examination of the sizeable impact of tiny twists of fate on our Prime Ministerial lineage. For this reason, Mark says, Francis Beckett’s most recent book is a ‘welcome publication’.
The Prime Ministers Who Never Were is available here, priced £14.99, or here as an eBook, priced £9.20. The lovely Mark Pack’s review can be read in full here.