# Splash!

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- Authors: [Stephen Glover](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-glover)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2017-06-15

## Description

'I thoroughly enjoyed Splash! It's a delicious confection of excellent plotting, an inventively bonkers cast of characters, subtle insights into the world of newspapers and a satisfying ending which invokes the great Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece, Scoop. A fine comedy of manners by a writer who knows the media inside out' BEL MOONEY Sam Blunt is a drunken, broken-down tabloid reporter, working for a once-mighty newspaper struggling to come to terms with the digital age. With the assistance of Benedict, an earnest though clever wet-behind-the-ears young intern on the paper, Sam grapples to uncover the story of the century which reveals the political corruption and cynicism at the heart of a rotten Establishment. As they try to nail the story amid a series of capers, Sam and Benedict are frustrated by the self-serving proprietor of the Daily Bugle, various self-appointed do-gooders who want to rein in the Press, and Trevor Yapp, the malign and untrustworthy editor of Bugle Online. Splash! is a satire of the Press and politics in a modern London peopled by a Chinese billionaire would-be press proprietor, a worldly bishop, neglected immigrants, a corrupt and plaintive Prime Minister, and journalists who are often most interested in doing one another down. Yet however self-serving newspapers may sometimes be, Sam and Benedict are ultimately on the side of the angels as they battle to write their triumphant story.

## Editions

### Splash!

- Publisher: constable
- ISBN: 978-14-7212-634-4
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2018-10-04
- Language: en_GB

### Splash!

- Publisher: constable
- ISBN: 978-14-7212-633-7
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2017-06-15
- Language: en_GB

### Splash!

- Publisher: constable
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7212-632-0
- Published: 2017-06-15
- Language: en_GB