Autumn book reviews
The Speechwriter
by Martin McKenzie-Murray
Published by Scribe
ISBN 9781925713831
$24.99
In his fictional memoir, Toby Beaverbrook writes of his idealism having been utterly destroyed by the all-too-immediate realisation that Australian politics operates far from the nobility of Churchill’s oratory and The West Wing’s smoothly competent liberal democracy. Turning rogue, he has brought his own serve of fear and loathing to Canberra as a gonzo speechwriter. He becomes increasingly inventive in his desire to be fired rather than resign and be forced to repay his relocation fee from Perth, that notorious incubator
