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Welcome to the Spectator event's exclusive speaker series,

where we bring you closer to the lives of those who shape the politics and ideas of today.

For tonight's event, please welcome to the stage, the Spectator's editor, Michael Gove,

and, as our special guest, a man who's been one of the Conservative Party's most colourful campaigners, the prolific, best-selling novelist Geoffrey Archer.

We have an opportunity now to hear from the world's greatest living author.

No one writing in the English language has sold more novels than you, and you are, I think, now in your ninth decade, we won't say exactly quite how old you are yet, and yet every

year there is a new Archer novel, which goes straight to the top of the best

cellar lists.

The latest is Endgame, which I know many people here have already bought.

Jeffrey, we're going to talk a little bit about this book, a little bit about the art

of fiction, writing, what it means to you, and also a little bit about politics as well.

You've been a participant and an observer

in political dramas now for decades,

and we'll touch on some of the dilemmas of the moment.

But first of all, this is the latest in the William Warwick series.

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