[]
The Making Of Mr Bolsover
  • Published: 15 June 2015
  • ISBN: 9780099548690
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $29.99

The Making Of Mr Bolsover

Formats & editions
EBook
5 June 2014
Paperback
15 June 2015
Buy from…
Book Hero BookHub Mighty Ape Paper Plus The Nile The Warehouse Whitcoulls Unity Books University Book Shop Find Local Retailers

A tale of a modern misfit and a sort of demented political biography from a brilliant writer

NAME: Lynch, Andrew (b. 16.10.1958); a.k.a. ‘Mr Bolsover’

CAREER: civil servant, librarian, columnist, local councillor, revolutionary

RECREATIONS: shooting squirrels, skinning rabbits, cooking with rats

ADDRESS: present whereabouts unknown; last sighted in South Downs woodland close to the A275

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS: cataloguing systems, hermits, badger welfare, troglodytes, revolutionary politics

But a Who’s Who entry can reveal only so much. Like all the great political lives – Churchill, Disraeli, Gladstone, Genghis Khan – Bolsover’s is one of incident, drama and passion.

From the calm of Uckfield library to the demands of high office, a life on the run and a final confrontation with the authorities, The Making of Mr Bolsover is a moving, epic tale of a modern misfit and a political biography like no other.
  • Published: 15 June 2015
  • ISBN: 9780099548690
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $29.99
Categories:

About the author

Cornelius Medvei

Cornelius Medvei was born in 1977 and grew up in the east of England. He studied modern languages at Oxford University and worked for a time in China as a teacher. He is the author of the acclaimed novels Mr Thundermug, Caroline and The Partisan. He lives in London.
CM

Also by Cornelius Medvei

Caroline
See all

Praise for The Making Of Mr Bolsover

Very funny and charming

Kate Saunders, The Times

A brilliant parody… Blending the sublime with the suburban produces some of the best humour, and Medvei has it down to a fine art

Stephen Coulson, Lady

An exploration of how myths are engendered as much as it is a whimsical satire of political ambition… Very much in love with the Sussex countryside that it so beautifully evokes… Assured, precise prose

Philip Womack, Literary Review

A minor masterpiece of the deadpan… a very, very funny book… genuinely original and written with understated intelligence

Sunday Telegraph

a master-piece of writing

Mags Fisk, Nudge Book