The Silent State

She's a total ninja.

BEN GOLDACRE

You won't know whether to laugh or rise up and overthrow absolutely everything.

CHARLIE BROOKER

A wonderful book... Heather Brooke puts every other British journalist to shame. She has changed British public culture and earned an essential place in our national history. She is an extraordinary figure who must be celebrated.

PETER OBORNE

Secrecy is one of the great British diseases. It's so secret that we don't even admit we suffer from it. Heather Brooke is part of the cure - challenging the routine concealment and distortion of important information. There should be more journalists doing the same.

NICK DAVIES

'passionate, eloquent and persuasive...We need the likes of Heather Brooke to challenge, to take up grievances and to campaign.'

Peter Riddell,Times Book of the Week

'Brooke tells the story of her own preliminary part in one of the most successful raids every carried out against the Establishment vividly'

Telegraph

The American heroine of the battle to release details of MPs' expenses look in turn at different abuses...the book is cogent, impersonal analysis...beadily observant, playful but implacable.'

John Dugdale, Guardian pb review

'[The Silent State] unmasks an endemic secrecy and a sod-you attitude to the public that arouses new levels of indignation.'

Sunday Times pb review