{"id":589,"date":"2004-02-17T15:52:57","date_gmt":"2004-02-17T15:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2004\/02\/the_last_king_o\/"},"modified":"2004-02-17T15:52:57","modified_gmt":"2004-02-17T15:52:57","slug":"the_last_king_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/the_last_king_o\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last King of Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Giles Foden&#8217;s first book was this Whitbread winning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0571195644\">novel<\/a> from 1998. We follow a young doctor who accepts work in Uganda around the time that Idi Amin was coming to power, and who eventually becomes both Amin&#8217;s personal doctor as well as a confident of sorts.<br \/>\nAs such, Idi Amin is a fictionalised character in this novel, coming across as a very real person. That he was quite possibly psychotic is never far away from the surface.<br \/>\nThat completes the published Foden oeuvre to date. The next Foden novel is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0718145550\">Mimi and Toutou&#8217;s Big Adventure<\/a> due in September, so I shall look forward to that with pleasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0571195644<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}