Bibliograph

The Senecans, four men and Margaret Thatcher, Peter Stothard

Type

Label

The Senecans, four men and Margaret Thatcher, Peter Stothard

Language

eng

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

portraitsillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Senecans

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

943645672

Responsibility statement

Peter Stothard

Sub title

four men and Margaret Thatcher

Summary

A year after the death of Margaret Thatcher, a young historian arrives to ask Peter Stothard, Editor of the Time Literary Supplement and former editor of The Time, some sharp questions about his memories of the Thatcher era. During the interview the offices from where he long observed British politics are being systematically flattened by wrecking balls. From the dust and destruction of a collapsing newspaper plant emerge portraits of the Senecans, four of the men who made the Thatcher court so different from that of her successors. As well as love of Britain's first female Prime Minister they shared strange Latin lessons in a crumbling riverside bar. They took their name from their taste for the work of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, a pioneer writer from Cordoba in Roman Spain, a philosopher, courtier and acquirer of massive wealth from the age of the Emperor Nero

Target audience

adult

Classification