Fall Out, Tim Shipman
Fall Out, Tim Shipman
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Fall Out

Author: Tim Shipman

Narrator: Rupert Farley

Unabridged: 29 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/14/2017

Synopsis

The unmissable inside story of the most dramatic general election campaign in modern history and Theresa May’s battle for a Brexit deal, the greatest challenge for a prime minister since the Second World War. By the bestselling author of , shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2017. This is the unmissable inside story of the most dramatic general election campaign in modern history and Theresa May’s battle for a Brexit deal – the greatest challenge for a prime minister since the Second World War. Fall Out Inside this book you will find all the strategy, comedy, tragedy and farce of modern politics – where principle, passion and vaulting ambition collide in the corridors of power. It chronicles a civil war at the heart of the Conservative Party and a Labour Party back from the dead, led by Jeremy Corbyn, who defied the experts and the critics on his own side to mount an unlikely tilt at the top job. With access to all the key players, Tim Shipman has written a political history that reads like a thriller, exploring how and why the EU referendum result pitched Britain into a year of political mayhem.

About Tim Shipman

Tim Shipman is the political editor of the Sunday Times. He has been a national newspaper journalist since 1997 and in sixteen years writing about politics he has also reported from Westminster for the Daily Mail and the Sunday Express.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on August 17, 2018

It was in the middle of the big meeting, the one to decide who was the new boss of the whole gang. Suddenly the table was overturned, guns appeared in several hands, and death was the decision maker. Within two minutes three bodies hit the floor. The rest of them fled into the night. Except, in the......more

Goodreads review by Gumble's Yard - Golden Reviewer on February 17, 2021

A follow-up to All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class – which I described as “likely to stand as the definitive account of the political events before, during and after the Brexit vote”; this book concentrates on the following year looking at the events leading up t......more

Goodreads review by John on February 05, 2020

Tim Shipman once again helps shed light and makes sense of our turbulent politics since the referendum in 2016. Concentrating on the election year of 2017,Fall Out is a truly revealing account of how our politicians and civil servants were acting and thinking. I'm not going to reveal anything here b......more

Goodreads review by Jay on June 11, 2018

Long-winded journalistic account with very little depth of analysis and overly sympathetic to the dramatis personae. Anyone looking for a scrupulous, insightful, and knowledgeable explanation and description of the events surrounding Theresa May's snap election will get very little from this novelis......more

Goodreads review by Jacob on September 01, 2020

Interesting summary of the events leading up to, and following, the 2017 general election, and allows you an insight into the manoeuvring and personalities behind the scenes.......more

Quotes

'The doyen of … high-class gossip is … Shipman, whose All Out War was last year’s bestselling guide to the referendum campaign. Its sequel takes up where that left off … Shipman’s books are fast becoming classics … It’s testament to the rigour of [his] research that the book doesn’t feel dated despite the speed at which events at Westminster have moved since it went to press' Gaby Hinsliff, Guardian ‘This extraordinary book … reads like a roaring farce … jam-packed with fresh, illuminating details … Shipman’s writing has admirable clarity and drive … For anyone who wants to relive the past year… this book is a must’ Craig Brown, Mail On Sunday ‘All Out War was the best political book published … last year … its triumphant sequel … is even better’ Alex Massie, Spectator ‘Gripping … If journalism is the "first rough draft" of history, then Shipman is the master of the second, tidied up, version of events … A mixture of political thriller, psychological analysis and campaign diary, this is a page-turner for anyone interested in politics’ Rachel Sylvester, The Times ‘Readers who enjoyed the lucid prose and unrivalled access that made the first book such a treat will love its sequel’ New Statesman ‘Shipman … a major-domo with a notebook in his waistcoat pocket … bends over backwards to be fair … It is crammed with detailed description and the transcribed thoughts of those who were there when the key decisions were taken’ Andrew Marr, Sunday Times ‘Excellent … engrossing … a witty phrase-maker … Shipman does a fine job of making sense of the period since the Brexit referendum … illuminating’ Andrew Rawnsley, Observer ‘Of books explaining this peculiar time, the most keenly awaited comes from Tim Shipman … he returns to his role as the chief biographer of Brexit with a worthy sequel’ Sebastian Payne, Financial Times ‘It carries on from his first book, All Out War and is just as good … I can’t give his books any higher praise than that’ Iain Dale, LBC

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