However, INTERN cannot update you on the events at Shamsbury-pon-Spoor Castle because her head is still reeling from news of the vicious memoir battle that is rocking the UK.
Says the London Evening Standard:
New Labour may be well and truly dead but the memoirs fight is raging in a summer that will pit the former Labour leader against his oldest and closest ally.
Lord Mandelson has effectively scooped his former boss, Tony Blair, by giving an exclusive interview to tomorrow's Times after selling his memoirs to the pugnacious literary queen Victoria Barnsley at HarperCollins.
Meanwhile, at Random House, Tony Blair's recollections of his time at the top, The Journey, will be published in September by Gail Rebuck, the newly honoured Dame, who has social connections across politics and publishing and among London's cultural elites.
The £4.6 million deal has been long publicised but any details are treated as a state secret.
Dames! Queens! Secrecy! Deception! MANUSCRIPTS!
INTERN just heard on the radio that the parties involved have agreed to settle the matter by duel.
Dueling memoirists keep stiff upper lips.
Ah, duels. There's a tradition that is sadly missed. Remember that one where Lord Tauntleroy and Sir Osis bared blades over the latter's insult to the honor of Lady Slatterly? Ah, there were clashing blades and blood and those little sandwiches with the cream-cheese...
ReplyDeleteWait, no. You weren't there. Come to think of it, neither was I. It's a shame we missed it.
and weak little chins...
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