![]() ![]() She offers to put in a word for him with Lord Copper, editor of newspaper The Daily Beast, suggesting that maybe the Lord can get John out of the country and into something a bit more exciting. The story opens with John Boot, a popular novelist, telling his society friend Mrs Stitch that he longs to escape. Scoop is a farce of a novel, reading like an early sitcom and definitely comedic. ![]() So, another classic book on the blog – a rarity for me, and my first one this year, but thankfully another one I happened to like. It all seemed to much more wholesome back in the thirties, so let’s go! Besides, in these days of fearmongering, phone hacking, celebrity obsession and Rupert Murdoch, it’s not exactly an area that seems particularly pleasant sometimes. I have since done the odd bit of freelance here and there, but generally I find that it’s not an area that comes naturally to me. ![]() “While still a young man, John Courteney Boot had, as his publisher proclaimed, ‘achieved an assured and enviable position in contemporary letters’.”īack in the day, I thought about working in journalism for a bit. ![]()
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