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ix, 339 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 20 cm The shocking true story of the first British politician to stand trial for murder. Behind oak-panelled doors in the House of Commons, men with cut-glass accents and gold signet rings are conspiring to murder. It's the late 1960s and homosexuality has only just been legalised, and Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal party, has a secret he's desperate to hide. As long as Norman Scott, his beautiful, unstable lover is around, Thorpe's brilliant career is at risk. With the help of his fellow politicians, Thorpe schemes, deceives, embezzles - until he can see only one way to silence Scott for good. The trial of Jeremy Thorpe changed our society forever: it was the moment the British public discovered the truth about its political class. Illuminating the darkest secrets of the Establishment, the Thorpe affair revealed such breath-taking deceit and corruption in an entire section of British society that, at the time, hardly anyone dared believe it could be true. This is an eye-opening tale of how the powerful protect their own, and an extraordinary insight into the forces that shaped modern Britain "Now a BBC programme starring Hugh

Author

Preston, John, 1953-

Publisher

UK: Penguin Books

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780241983898

Subjects

History, Historical Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.1 / 5 (307 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14