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The art of the political novel: How politicians differ from the rest of us

Reading these books you realise why politicians are what they are and how they differ from the rest of us

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T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan
Several years ago I saw a British TV serial called House of Cards. Needless to say, it is vastly superior to the American version that simply went on and on and on. The BBC thing was just three hours long, compared to over 50 of the American one.

One day while looking for something else on Amazon, I chanced upon second-hand copies of the original three books on which these serials were based. They are by Michael Dobbs and were published 30 years ago. As political novels, or novels about politics, go they are unmatched, at least according to me.

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