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The Allegations

Author: Mark Lawson

2018 Longlist

On the morning after he has celebrated his 60th birthday party at a celebrity-filled party, Ned Marriott is in bed with his partner, Emma, when there’s a knock on the door. Detectives from the London police force’s ‘Operation Millpond’ have come to arrest him over an allegation of sexual assault.

Ned is one of the country’s best-known historians – teaching at a leading university, advising governments and making top-rating TV documentaries – but this ‘historic’ claim from someone the cops insist on calling ‘the victim’ threatens him with personal and professional ruin and potential imprisonment.

Professor Marriott would normally turn for support to Tom Pimm, his closest friend at the university, but Tom has just been informed that a secret investigation has raised anonymous complaints, which may end Dr Pimm’s career.

Swinging between fear, bewilderment and anger, Ned and Tom must try to defend themselves against the allegations, and hope that no others are made. The two men’s families and friends are forced to question what they know and think. Can the complainants, detectives, HR teams, journalists and Tweeters who are driving the stories all be seeing smoke that has no fire behind it?

By turns shocking and comic, reportorial and thoughtful, The Allegations startlingly and heart-breakingly captures a contemporary culture in which allegations are easily made and reputations casually destroyed. Asking readers to decide who they believe, it explores a modern nightmare that could happen, in some way, to anyone whose view of personal history may differ from someone else’s.

About the author

Mark Lawson has published five novels: Idlewild, Going Out Live, Enough Is Enough, The Deaths and The Allegations. His work as a broadcaster includes BBC Radio 4’s Front Row and Foreign Bodies – A History of Crime Fiction and BBC4’s Mark Lawson Talks to . . . . He also writes for the Guardian and the New Statesman.

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Librarian’s comments

Profound, uncomfortable and witty study of man’s vulnerability in his efforts to overcome the psychological and social impact on his mind and fate of modern media, mass culture, and the court system. This grotesque story might have been really horrible in the Kafkian way but for the fun underlying its characters and situations.

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Author

Mark Lawson

Country

GB

Nominating Library

Moscow, Rudomino State Library for Foreign Literature, Russia

Publisher

Picador, UK

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