TORIES: A Tragedy: The New Shakespearean Retelling

The brilliant mind behind the Secret Tory presents 14 years of Tory rule as told by William Shakespeare in this brilliant work of political satire. Morris presents 14 years of Conservative (mis)rule in the form of a Shakespearean play in five acts, a captivatingly realised Jacobean tragedy replete with Machiavellian manoeuvrings, hilarious mechanicals and poignant verse. absurdly funny, principled and completely impossible to categorise, Henry Morris convinced the country he was a Tory MP with his Secret Tory Twitter account, delighting users with parodies of Samuel Pepys, Gulliver's Travels and government WhatsApp chats. The title page to his book reads: 'The most troublesome raigne and most lamentable tragedie of the Tories. With the most tragicall falls of proud Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak. As it was sundrie times publiquely acted in the honourable citie of London, by the honourable the Earle of Pembroke and his servants.' Catastrophes, failures, it is a penetrating exploration of greed and incompetence and relentlessly self-referential style, a play like no other. For highbrow who liked to raise an eyebrow: 'Shakespeare, while inviting compassion, held these portentous Tories in the highest disdain. In doing so, he remains, as ever, our contemporary.' With Dramatis personae including Dominic Raab, the hero of Kabul, Jeremy Hunt luxury flat enthusiast and Michael Gove a bivalve mollusc. Hilarious, grab your bargain now. 230pp.