
Here are two Alternative Reading Christmas gift ideas: books respectively by Gordon Brown and David Cameron.
The Gordonian offering is by an ordained minister who wants to help you with your finances. ‘Gordon Brown’s message is very clear,’ the back cover says.
The Cameronian offering is by a poet from Brooklyn, whose poems are ‘false translations’ of Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal.

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