Robert Peston for The Kill Switch
Tuesday 14th July, 7pm
Pilrig St. Paul's / LARCH, Leith Walk, Edinburgh EH6 5AH
6.30pm
7pm
Robert Peston is ITV's political editor, presenter of the politics show Peston, founder of the education charity, Speakers for Schools, and vice president of Hospice UK. He has written four critically acclaimed non-fiction books, How Do We Fix This Mess?, Who Runs Britain?, Brown's Britain and his latest, WTF?. His first thriller, The Whistleblower, was 'brilliant' according to the Guardian and called 'a rollicking read' by the Evening Standard.
For a decade until the end of 2015, he was at the BBC, as economics editor and business editor, and in the 1990s he was at the Financial Times, as political editor, financial editor and head of investigations.
We're delighted to welcome him to the bookshop to celebrate The Kill Switch.
Journalist Gil Peck is back; in therapy, married to Jess - now editor of the Financial Chronicle - and still driven by the need to prove a point that he can't quite identify.
Yet all is not well. Jess is fed up with Gil's obsession with his job, and she's kicked him out of their home.
But Gil has never let anything get in the way of a scoop. He and Jess have landed the interview of a lifetime with the Prime Minister, Stella Barnsbury, for the podcast they co-host, and Gil has no intention of missing it.
During the interview, Barnsbury begins to pale, her coughing intensifying before she finally collapses.
Within 48 hours, the Prime Minister is dead.
Gil is used to landing the biggest stories. But as the last person to see the PM alive, he's now a main character. And when foul play is confirmed, he's also a prime suspect . . .