Law and Peace (44 page)

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Authors: Tim Kevan

 

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LAW & DISORDER
CONFESSIONS OF A PUPIL BARRISTER
It is BabyBarista's first day as a pupil barrister. He has just one year to win, by foul means or fair, the sought-after prize of a tenancy in chambers. Competition is fierce: there's TopFirst, who has a prize-winning CV and an ego to match; BusyBody, a human whirlwind on a husband hunt; and wide-eyed Worrier, buckling under the weight of the world. Armed with a copy of Sun Tzu's
The Art of War
, BabyBarista launches a no-holds barred ght to the death of double-dealing, dirty tricks and a healthy dose of back-stabbing. Part Rumpole, part Flashman, BabyBarista opens a window onto the Machiavellian and frequently absurd ways of working life.

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‘It is a wonderful, racing read – well-drawn, smartly plotted and laugh out loud'
JEREMY VINE

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‘This is “The Legal Apprentice”, a high concept TV show disguised as a smart book'
THE TIMES

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‘Blogger Tim Kevan's diary of a trainee barrister desperate to win a job is fascinating, subversive and pretty much impossible to put down'
SCOTSMAN

First published in Great Britain 2011

Copyright © Tim Kevan 2011

 

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Excerpt from
Animal Farm
by George Orwell (Copyright © George Orwell, 1945)

reprinted by permission of Bill Hamilton as the Literary Executor of the

Estate of the Late Sonia Brownell Orwell and Secker & Warburg Ltd.

 

‘Lord Finchley' by Hilaire Belloc from
More Peers
(© Hilaire Belloc 1911)

is reproduced by permission of PFD (www.pfd.co.uk) on behalf of The Estate

of Hilaire Belloc.

 

Extract from ‘Let Me Die a Young Man's Death' by Roger McGough from
The Mersey

Sound
(© Roger McGough 1967) is printed by permission of United Agents

(www.unitedagents.co.uk) on behalf of Roger McGough.

 

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