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  2. The Prime Minister (novel) - Wikipedia

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    A significant sub-plot centres on Ferdinand Lopez, a financially overextended City adventurer of undisclosed parentage and ethnicity, who wins the favour of Emily Wharton. She marries him despite her father's objections, in preference to Arthur Fletcher, who has always been in love with her. As in Trollope's earlier Palliser novel Can You ...

  3. House of Cards (novel) - Wikipedia

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    House of Cards. House of Cards is a political thriller novel by British author Michael Dobbs. Published in 1989, it tells the story of Francis Urquhart, a fictional Chief Whip of the Conservative Party, and his amoral and manipulative scheme to become leader of the governing party and, thus, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom .

  4. The Paradoxical Prime Minister - Wikipedia

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    9789388292177. The Paradoxical Prime Minister: Narendra Modi And His India is a 2018 nonfiction book written by the senior leader of the Indian National Congress, Shashi Tharoor, about the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi. [1] [2] [3] The book was released on 26 October 2018 by Manmohan Singh, P. Chidambaram, Arun Shourie, and Pavan Varma ...

  5. Yann Martel - Wikipedia

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    From 2007 to 2011, Martel ran a book club with the then Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, sending the Prime Minister a book every two weeks for four years, a total of more than a hundred novels, plays, poetry collections, graphic novels and children's books.

  6. Phineas Redux - Wikipedia

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    Print ( serial, hardback & paperback) Preceded by. The Eustace Diamonds. Followed by. The Prime Minister. Phineas Redux is a novel by Anthony Trollope, first published between 1873 and 1874 as a serial in The Graphic. [1] It is the fourth of the "Palliser" series of novels and is a sequel to the second book of the series, Phineas Finn .

  7. Michael Somare - Wikipedia

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    Michael Somare. Sir Michael Thomas Somare GCL GCMG CH CF SSI KStJ KSG PC (9 April 1936 – 25 February 2021) was a Papua New Guinean politician. Widely called the "father of the nation" ( Tok Pisin: papa blo kantri ), he was the first Prime Minister after independence. At the time of his death, Somare was also the longest-serving prime minister ...

  8. BP Koirala - Wikipedia

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    The Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa convinced the king to allow Koirala to proceed to the US for treatment as per recommendation from the royal physician Dr. M. R. Pandey. The government of Nepal bore a portion of the cost of his medical treatment in the US, while the rest was arranged by his nephew Shail Updhaya, Dr. Shukdev Shah, family ...

  9. First Among Equals (novel) - Wikipedia

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    First Among Equals is a 1984 novel by British author Jeffrey Archer, which follows the careers and personal lives of four fictional British politicians (Simon Kerslake, MP for Coventry Central and later Pucklebridge; Charles Seymour, MP for Sussex Downs; Raymond Gould, MP for Leeds North; and Andrew Fraser, MP for Edinburgh Carlton) from 1964 to 1991, with each vying to become Prime Minister.