Scoop

William Boyd Everybody remembers Fleet Street and journalism and Lord Copper and The Daily Beast but the novel is about a classic, almost Shakespearean, case of mistaken identity. (Source)

William Boyd Everybody remembers Fleet Street and journalism and Lord Copper and The Daily Beast but the novel is about a classic, almost Shakespearean, case of mistaken identity. (Source)

Robert Cottrell Journalists would pride themselves on their amateurism, and Scoop shoves that back at them in spades. (Source)

Toby Young I re-read it recently and was struck by how unchanged Fleet Street is, 80 years after it was written. (Source)

Andy Borowitz Everything about this book is perfect, from the prose to the characters to the Swiss-clock workings of the plot. (Source)

Richard Beeston I think it is the best description of a foreign correspondent’s career, and I doubt it will ever be bettered. (Source)

Martin Bell The older I got and the more wars I covered – I have done about 18 – the more true it became. Everything is there. (Source)

M C Beaton Before I worked for the Daily Express I thought Scoop was a marvellous work of fiction. Then I found it wasn’t that far from the truth. (Source)