At the Guardian, John Dugdale tagged ten of the best fictional elections (UK edition), including:To Play the King by Michael Dobbs (1992)Read about the other entries on the list.
Dobbs’s better-known House of Cards is about what happens after an election, as is Chris Mullins’s A Very British Coup; whereas here Francis Urquhart, as Tory PM, campaigns in an election where his real opponent is King Charles III, who sees Urquhart’s policies as divisive and lacking in compassion and aligns himself with the opposition.
--Marshal Zeringue
Posts
