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Cover artist Mike Wykes Publication date 2013 Originally published 2013 Page count 286 Publisher Little, Brown and Company Dewey decimal 941.085 | 3.4/5 Goodreads Language English Pages 286 ISBN 9780349138916 Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Subject Politics and history of the United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Prime Minister's Ironing Board and other State Secrets is a 2013 book by Adam Macqueen, produced with the assistance of the National Archives of the United Kingdom
Contents
Synopsis
The book reveals numerous notes, letters and other documents stamped 'secret' and filed away over the years. From concerned notes on Prince Charles' potential brainwashing by Welsh nationalist terrorists to worries about housemaids 'on the wobble' at Chequers, the book reveals serious matters to comical details of life in the corridors of power.
Reception
In The Guardian Peter Preston described the book as 'the perfect bedside book...irresistibly, we're invited to look back and laugh' while in The Financial Times Charlotte McCann praised the book as 'delightfully gossipy' and noted that the author 'offers vignettes of British political life from the whimsical to the downright chilling'.
In The Daily Mail the book was described as 'hilarious and troubling' and was also judged a Daily Telegraph Book of the Year