Robert Newman – Intelligence

Award-winning author and comedian (Newman & Baddiel; The Mary Whitehouse Experience), brings us an unputdownable novel about love, secrets and wartime espionage…

Oxford, 1938. Ida and Medora are two brilliant young philosophers at the heart of a group who gather in storied rooms to dance, drink and debate theories of right and wrong. But as the world spins towards war, theoretical questions of life and death become all too real. While her friends are called up to do intelligence work, Ida, the irrepressible Texan outsider, seeks academic distraction. Then she stumbles across secret Nazi information that could radically change the direction of the war. Can she and Medora capture the attention of the spymasters and mandarins in London in time to save thousands of lives? Seductive, witty and page-turning: an unputdownable new novel from one of the UK’s best-loved writers and comedians.

Robert Newman is an award-winning author, comedian and broadcaster who made his name in the 1990s as a writer and performer of The Mary Whitehouse Experience and Newman & Baddiel. Intelligence is his seventh book. He has written and starred in many TV and radio shows, including Robert Newman’s Total Eclipse of Descartes, History of Oil and No Planet B – or the History of the World Backwards, and has performed sold-out stand-up shows all over the world.