Scoop

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Evelyn Waugh’s scathingly irreverent satire of Fleet Street and its hectic pursuit of hot news. Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. Acting on a dinner-party tip from Mrs Algernon Smith, he feels convinced that he has hit on just the chap to cover a promising little war in the African Republic of Ishmaelia, and sends John Boot, a serious novelist, by mistake. Waugh’s experiences in Ethiopia during the Abyssinian crisis of 1935-36 provided the raw material for a wicked romp through the more absurd byways of Fleet Street in the 1930s. This paperback copy is in good condition with some light fraying to the cover.