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The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope

I like Trollope, as he is easy to read and the stories rattle along. This dragged a little at times, because the political bits (the series of Palliser novels, named after the main characters, are also known as the ‘political novels’, because they are partly about British politics in the nineteenth century) are made slightly dull by the fact that they are not about real questions but pastiche…