"Newspapers England Fiction." . . "London (England)" . . . . "Mondadori," . . "Great Britain" . . . . . . . . . "L'exclusiva!" . "What starts out as a tango of wills and egos fast turns into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, as secrets are revealed, lies unearthed and the stakes ratcheted up as two vying newspapers are drawn into the tug-of-war, with what each thinks is an explosive story, and with one paper playing off against another in a ruthless, desperate grab for sensation and circulation." . . "In the 1990s, during the waning days of print media, a gossip reporter tries to get all the dirt on an aging female war correspondent, in an encounter that will change both their lives." . . "Humorous fiction" . "Fiction"@en . "Fiction" . . . . "The spoiler"@it . . "The spoiler : a novel" . . . "History"@en . "History" . . . . . "A dark hyper-comedy set in London in the late 1990s during the height of the newspaper wars just before the dot-com tidal wave. Honor Tait, a legendary prize-winning war correspondent (called in her day \"The Newsroom Dietrich\" because of her luminescent beauty) is now in her eighties and looking back at a career that saw her on the front lines and in the foxholes of every major theater of war in the twentieth century. Tamara Sim, a young feature writer who compiles lists (what's in/what's out, ten best/ten worst) for a newspaper gossip magazine, is sent to interview the venerated \"doyenne of British journalists\" for a well-respected publication. What starts out as a tango of wills and egos turns into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse as secrets are revealed, lies unearthed, and one paper plays off the other in a ruthless, desperate grab for sensation and circulation." . . . . . . "The spoiler a novel" . . . . "The spoiler" . . "The spoiler"@en . . "Large type books"@en . "Large type books" . "There are two sides to every story! Two women journalists--one old, one young, one a veteran war correspondent, the other a writer of celebrity gossip--meet for the first time. It is January 1997, the dying days of John Major's government, and newspapers, fighting for a dwindling readership, are plunging downmarket amid wild rumours that the Internet is about to change the world for ever."@en . "There are two sides to every story! Two women journalists--one old, one young, one a veteran war correspondent, the other a writer of celebrity gossip--meet for the first time. It is January 1997, the dying days of John Major's government, and newspapers, fighting for a dwindling readership, are plunging downmarket amid wild rumours that the Internet is about to change the world for ever." . . "Electronic books" . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . . . "In January 1997, during the dying days of John Major's government, newspapers fight for a dwindling readership and they plunge downmarket amid rumours that the internet is about to change the world for ever. Two women journalists meet for the first time: Honor Tait (b. 1917), is a renowned journalist and veteran war correspondent. She is haunted by her past; Tamara Sim (b. 1970), is a writer of celebrity gossip for PSST!, the weekend entertainment supplement of THE MONITOR. She is struggling to secure her future, at any cost, in an increasingly precarious industry. When Sim is sent to interview Tait, their mutual incomprehension generates a rich seam of dark comedy. But when their different worlds finally collide, the consequences are devastating." . . . . . . "Satire"@en . "Satire" . . . . "Le doux parfum du scandale" . . . "L'esclusiva" . . . . "L'esclusiva"@it . . . . "Political fiction" . "¡La exclusiva!"@es . "¡La exclusiva!" . "1900 - 1999" . . "Women journalists England Fiction." . . "FICTION / Political" . . "Fiction." . .