Overview
'Joyful, sad, smart and surprising' NICK HORNBY, bestselling author of High Fidelity and About a BoyWas he about to recruit her into the secret service? She held her breath. Frogwoman, codebreaker, assassin, saboteur - whatever it was, she'd do it! Oxford, 1938. Ida and Medora are two brilliant young philosophers at the heart of a group who gather in storied rooms to dance, drink and debate theories of right and wrong. But as the world spins towards war, theoretical questions of life and death become all too real. While her friends are called up to do intelligence work, Ida, the irrepressible Texan outsider, seeks academic distraction. Then she stumbles across secret Nazi information that could radically change the direction of the war. Can she and Medora capture the attention of the spymasters and mandarins in London in time to save thousands of lives?Seductive, witty and page-turning, Intelligence is the unputdownable new novel from one of the UK's best-loved writers and comedians.
Full Product Details
Author: Robert Newman
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Imprint: Serpent's Tail
Edition: Main
Dimensions:
Width: 13.80cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 22.00cm
Weight: 0.400kg
ISBN: 9781805226611
ISBN 10: 1805226614
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 05 March 2026
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
Availability: Not yet available
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Reviews
Praise for Fountain at the Centre of the World: 'Wonderful, big-hearted, textured, funny... makes a lot of British fiction seem rather tender-minded in comparison * Guardian * A sublimely frisky novel... Startlingly vivid * New York Times *
Intelligence is twisty, captivating, with a plot that really keeps the reader guessing -- Lissa Evans, author of CROOKED HEART and SMALL BOMB AT DIMPERLEY Written with great brio and aplomb -- William Boyd, bestselling author of GABRIEL'S MOON Praise for Fountain at the Centre of the World: Serious and intelligent... makes a lot of British fiction seem rather tender-minded in comparison * Guardian * A sublimely frisky novel... Startlingly vivid * New York Times *
Wonderful, big-hearted, textured, funny... makes a lot of British fiction seem rather tender-minded in comparison * Guardian, praise for Fountain at the Centre of the World * A sublimely frisky novel... Startlingly vivid * New York Times, praise for Fountain at the Centre of the World *
Author Information
Robert Newman is an award-winning author, comedian and broadcaster. Intelligence is his seventh book. He has written and starred in many TV and radio shows, including Robert Newman's Total Eclipse of Descartes, History of Oil and No Planet B - or the History of the World Backwards, and has performed sold-out stand-up shows all over the world.
