The Big Hippo Guide To Democracy, Referendums, General Elections (And All That)

Bob Marshall Andrews, Martin Rowson

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The Big Hippo Guide To Democracy, Referendums, General Elections (And All That)

Bob Marshall Andrews, Martin Rowson
Dimensions

200mm x 180mm
Format

Paperback
ISBN

978-1-911427-12-4
Published

25th July 2019
Pages

48
Author

Bob Marshall Andrews,

Martin Rowson

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Dimensions

200mm x 180mm
Format

Paperback
ISBN

978-1-911427-12-4
Published

25th July 2019
Pages

48
Author

Bob Marshall Andrews,

Martin Rowson
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Bob Marshall Andrews

Bob Marshall-Andrews is a writer and criminal silk based in London. From 1997 to 2010 he was Labour MP for Medway. As a result of his relationship with New Labour, one magazine described him as 'the thorn in Tony Blair's Red Rose'.

Praise for Off Message, his account of his time as an MP:
‘Full of wit, warmth, wisdom - and wine.’ – Ian Hislop
‘Passionate, whimsical and highly entertaining’ – The Observer
‘One of the most entertaining, irreverent, and magnificently self-indulgent political memoirs to emerge from the New Labour era’ – The Times

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Martin Rowson

Martin Rowson is a multi-award winning cartoonist and writer whose work has appeared regularly over the past 30 years in The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Mirror, The Independent on Sunday, The Irish Times, Time Out, Tribune, The Spectator, The New Statesman, Morning Star, The Daily Express and many other papers & periodicals. His books include graphic novelizations of The Waste Land, The Communist Manifesto, Tristram Shandy, and Gulliver’s Travels, while Stuff, his memoir about clearing out his late parents’ house, was long-listed for the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction.