{"product_id":"9781785901256","title":"I'm Not One To Gossip, But...: Wicked Whispers, William Hickey and Forty Years of Blarney","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom an embarrassing encounter with Jim Callaghan (and his impressive member) in the gentlemen’s toilet of the Savoy Hotel to the time he was almost throttled by \u003ci\u003eAngela’s Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e author Frank McCourt, John McEntee’s career has been nothing if not colourful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter reporting on the IRA terror campaign while a correspondent for the \u003ci\u003eIrish Press\u003c\/i\u003e, John soon found his home on London’s gossip circuit. With one ear always on the alert for scandalous remarks and titillating tit-bits of conversation, John was launched into a world of endless cocktail parties, book launches and openings, first as the author of the \u003ci\u003eMail\u003c\/i\u003e’s spiky Wicked Whispers gossip column and then as what turned out to be the last ever William Hickey columnist on the \u003ci\u003eDaily Express\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlamour and celebrity encounters aside, whoever said the job of a gossip columnist was easy has obviously never had to pick up the bill at El Vino after a drunken Kingsley Amis has spent the afternoon working his way through the whisky menu.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGloriously entertaining and wonderfully indiscreet, John McEntee’s enchanting autobiography is a veritable goldmine of anecdotal gems from one of the true denizens of Fleet Street.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Biteback Publishing, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47301105221872,"sku":"9781785901256","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781785901256_p0.jpg?v=1763729375","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781785901256","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}