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The Spanish Ambassador's Suitcase is a hilarious new collection of
diplomatic tales by Matthew Parris and Andrew Bryson 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? These and other 'funnies', as they are known in
Whitehall, are included in Matthew Parris and and Andrew Bryson's
glorious new volume of not so diplomatic writing, which accompanies
a new BBC Radio 4 series is a follow up to their acclaimed
collection of ambassadors' final despatches, Parting Shots. Drawn
from Freedom of Information requests and previously overlooked
Valedictories these startling despatches throw a revealing light on
how the British have viewed the world - and, unwittingly perhaps,
on how the world has viewed the British. Praise for Parting Shots:
'Parting Shots is unbuttoned, indiscreet and very funny' Yorkshire
Post 'Fascinating, if sometimes uncomfortable, reading' Financial
Times 'Very funny' Guardian 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.
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