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Michael Dobbs was born on the same day, in the same hour as Prince Charles in 1948.
He is the son of nurseryman Eric and his wife Eileen Dobbs and was educated at Hertford Grammar School and Christ Church, Oxford University. After graduating in 1971 he moved to the United States.
In the USA he attended the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, which he funded by a job as feature writer for the Boston Globe, where he worked as an editorial assistant and political feature writer from 1971 to 1975.He graduated in 1975 with an M.A., M.A.L.D., and PhD in nuclear defence studies. His doctoral thesis was published as SALT on the Dragon's Tail. In 2007 he returned to Tufts where he gave the Alumni Salutation.
After gaining his PhD he returned to England and began working in London for the Conservative Party. He was an advisor to the then leader of the Opposition, Margaret Thatcher, from 1977 to 1979 and from 1979 to 1981 he was a Conservative MP speechwriter.
He served as a Government Special Advisor from 1981 to 1986 and he survived the Brighton Bombing in 1984 at the Conservative Party Conference. He was the Conservative Party Chief of Staff from 1986 to 1987.
He was considered a masterful political operator and was called "Westminster’s baby-faced hit man", by The Guardian in 1987. In the John Major government, he served as Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1994 to 1995, after which he retired from politics.
Outside of politics, he worked at Saatchi & Saatchi as Deputy Advertising Chairman from 1983 to 1986 and was Director of Worldwide Corporate Communications at the company from 1987 to 1988. He became Deputy Chairman, working directly under Maurice Saatchi from 1988 to 1991.
From 1991 to 1998 he was a columnist for The Mail on Sunday and also wrote column for the Daily Express. From 1998 to 2001 he hosted the current affairs program Despatch Box on BBC television and has also been a radio presenter.
Nowadays he is best known as the bestselling author of 17 novels (up to 2010), such as 'The Turning Point', about Winston Churchill and Guy Burgess, and 'A Family Affair', about the last days of Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street, and also a number of non-fiction works.
His writing career began in 1989 with the publication of 'House of Cards', the first in what would become a trilogy of political thrillers with Francis Urquhart as the central character. 'House of Cards' was followed by 'To Play the King' in 1992 and 'The Final Cut' in 1994.
Each of the three novels was adapted by the BBC into a miniseries and, with Ian Richardson playiing a starring role, the trilogy received a combined 14 BAFTA nominations and two BAFTA wins and was voted the 84th Best British Show in History.
His 2004 novel 'Winston’s War' was shortlisted for the Channel 4 Political Book of the Year Award. He was the winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award for best historical novel in 2008 and in 2001 was shortlisted for the C4 Political Novel of the Year. He has also been a judge of the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and lectures at dozens of literary and fundraising events each year.
Anthony Howard of The Times said “Dobbs is following in a respectable tradition. Shakespeare, Walter Scott, even Tolstoy, all used historical events as the framework for their writings. And, unlike some of their distinguished works, Dobbs's novel is, in fact, astonishingly historically accurate."
He is now a full time writer and divides his time between London and Wiltshire, where he says that he lives near a church and a pub! He is married with four children.
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Francis Urquhart Series
Michael Dobbs – House Of Cards (read by Samuel West)
Michael Dobbs – To Play The King (read by Samuel West)
Michael Dobbs – The Final Cut (read by Samuel West)
Winston Churchill Series
Michael Dobbs – Winston's War (read by Terry Wale)
Michael Dobbs – Never Surrender (read by Terry Wale)
Michael Dobbs – Churchill's Hour (read by Terry Wale)
Michael Dobbs – Churchill's Triumph (read by Terry Wale)
Harry Jones Series books 1,3-5
Michael Dobbs – The Lord's Day (read by David Thorpe)
Michael Dobbs – The Reluctant Hero (read by David Thorpe)
Michael Dobbs – Old Enemies (read by David Thorpe)
Michael Dobbs – A Sentimental Traitor (read by David Thorpe)
Non-Series
Michael Dobbs – First Lady (read by Jilly Bond)
Michael Dobbs – The Unwanted (read by Mark Deakins)
Michael Dobbs – One Minute To Midnight (read by Bob Walter)
Michael Dobbs – Six Months In 1945 (read by Bob Walter)
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Francis Urquhart Series
https://rapidgator.net/file/0a448bcdba0e3cdc2e7d46792c9d6a00/House_Of_Cards.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/8bcaf2425eda8ccd8d3a1909b7d3c0ad/To_Play_The_King.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/669147bb0e9d7314109ade9759989c0f/The_Final_Cut.rar.html
Winston Churchill Series
https://rapidgator.net/file/1ef3ce6b7825f71513458c75ddff5471/Winstons_War.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/878b058e1daab4b2d4d5ac33c3cf23e4/Never_Surrender.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/3a2a88441ecd0d293d5955a0c3008e3f/Churchills_Hour.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/c31cddbb1371e9f75e7d73367407e5bd/Churchills_Triumph.rar.html
Harry Jones Series
https://rapidgator.net/file/404df4c29b92edd36f4837539dccea13/The_Lords_Day.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/a4e053196bb650720dd63ae90149009c/The_Reluctant_Hero.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/981477138e58eca75d045b2d16ac1c28/Old_Enemies.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/b962174825e9e1e323ec3860b8cd03b3/A_Sentimental_Traitor.rar.html
Non-Series
https://rapidgator.net/file/40667c98a0213c5e12ddaff412140928/First_Lady.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/059461ffc19f27167116be0906dcf6a1/The_Unwanted.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/50224c4ed1ca760cab8d6e72ddade0d9/One_Minute_To_Midnight.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/bbf5772bb102558594314f231ba6204d/Six_Months_In_1945.rar.html |
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