I was puzzled at first by the Sonia Purnell "biography" of Boris Johnson Just Boris: A Tale of Blond Ambition.
Why should someone with so little sympathy with her subject bother to write 464 pages, allocating a largish chunk of her life to do so?
But this "Tweet" by Jonathan Prynn (Consumer Business Editor of the Evening Standard) pinged in my mind, and made me wonder whether Sonia Purnell's provocative book is a rip-off of Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.
The secret of originality is concealing all sources (as they say).
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Just-Boris-Ambition-Biography-Johnson/dp/1845137167/ref=la_B00845QAE8_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1363707373&sr=1-1
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