{"id":2290,"date":"2007-10-19T22:02:23","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T22:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2007-10-19T22:03:55","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T22:03:55","slug":"a-thrill-and-a-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2290","title":{"rendered":"A thrill and a twist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over on Blogcritics I&#8217;ve a review of Robert Harris&#8217;s <a href = \"http:\/\/blogcritics.org\/archives\/2007\/10\/19\/175352.php\"><i>The Ghost<\/i><\/a>, rather closely based on recent British political events, which I was reading in the early hours of this morning, when I should have been sleeping &#8211; be warned, once you&#8217;ve picked it up you&#8217;re unlikely to put it down until the end.<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t brilliant, the satire is in places a bit obvious, but is a genuinely fun read. <\/p>\n<p>But I do hope Harris goes back to his historical thrillers after this &#8211; his talent is better employed there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on Blogcritics I&#8217;ve a review of Robert Harris&#8217;s The Ghost, rather closely based on recent British political events, which I was reading in the early hours of this morning, when I should have been sleeping &#8211; be warned, once you&#8217;ve picked it up you&#8217;re unlikely to put it down until the end. It isn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}