Rishi has been a bit down lately, Nova tells Robert Hutton. But is he down enough?
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The @wehavewayspod Festival programme: as a friend of mine likes to say - 'what's not to like?'

#history #WW2 #podcasting
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Buy my book while there's still time!

It’s a double delivery today! Can’t wait to read these 👀 Robert Hutton Women's Intelligence Network Society for Intelligence History

Books in the wild!

Another hardback fresh off the W&N press is Robert Hutton's THE ILLUSIONIST!!

This is the dazzling tale of how British eccentricity and imagination combined to thwart the Nazis and save innumerable lives - on both sides.

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The Biggest Magic Trick in History.

My new book, The Illusionist, is out on April 25. It's the *true* story of Dudley Clarke, an extremely unusual British Army officer who spent World War 2 running military deception on a scale no one imagined possible. A scale, indeed, that no one quite grasped even at the time.

Scripted Quips And Low Blows: my SKETCH of Rayner vs Dowden... thecritic.co.uk/the-never-endi…

Announcing the second year of the Martha Mills Young Writers’ Prize!

Inspired by the curiosity and imagination of Martha Mills, the prize seeks to give young people a chance to explore new themes in their writing and to get their work published

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Sad to miss this too this week but certainly ordered!

COWARD AND FRAUD jonn elledge HAS NOT TURNED UP TO HIS OWN BOOK LAUNCH! Probably ashamed of not being able to think of a whole 50 borders. DO NOT BUY HIS BOOK.

'Gullis is one of those people who has the air of suspecting that people burst into laughter the moment he has left the room. Though if he does think that, it would be uncharacteristically perceptive of him.' 😆😆

Scripted Quips And Low Blows: my SKETCH of Rayner vs Dowden... thecritic.co.uk/the-never-endi…

Jonathan Gullis may still be in the middle of his parliamentary question, reports Robert Hutton. It may never end
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Do join me this Sunday from 1pm on Times Radio when Robert will be telling me all about. this extraordinary book! 🪄🎩🐇 Robert Hutton

This episode was inspired by Civil War (which I absolutely loved). Stephen Marche's book offers a series of terrifyingly plausible scenarios through which the US really could collapse. It was a fascinating, if slightly scary, conversation.