The Spanish Ambassador's Suitcase: Stories from the Diplomatic Bag

Informationen zum Autor After working in the Foreign Office then serving as a Conservative MP, Matthew Parris joined The Times in 1988. He writes two weekly columns for The Times and one for the Spectator , and in 2011 won the Best Columnist Award at the British Press awards. His acclaimed autobiography Chance Witness was published by Penguin in 2003. He is a frequent broadcaster. Andrew Bryson is a radio journalist working in the BBC's Business and Economic Unit. He frequently works as a producer on Radio 4's Today programme and on Radio 5 Live. Klappentext After working in the Foreign Office then serving as a Conservative MP, Matthew Parris joined The Times in 1988. He writes two weekly columns for The Times and one for the Spectator , and in 2011 won the Best Columnist Award at the British Press awards. His acclaimed autobiography Chance Witness was published by Penguin in 2003. He is a frequent broadcaster. Andrew Bryson is a radio journalist working in the BBC's Business and Economic Unit. He frequently works as a producer on Radio 4's Today programme and on Radio 5 Live. Their first volume of diplomats' despatches, Parting Shots , is published by Penguin. Zusammenfassung Heard the one about the Spanish Ambassador who arrived in the scorching Saharan desert fully suited and with a mysteriously enormous suitcase? Or the horse they gave Prime Minister John Major in Turkmenistan - which hapless embassy officials had to rescue from the clutches of the Moscow railway? This title deals with these questions.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Bryson, Matthew Parris, Parris Matthew
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.07.2013
• EAN: 9780241957080
• ISBN: 978-0-241-95708-0
• No. of pages: 388
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, HUMOR / Topic / Politics, Politics & government, Diplomacy, Politics and government, Humour collections and anthologies