Tenth Child
By Harold Bolter
March 2010
Book Guild
Distributed by Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN: 9781846243905suleiman
240 pages, Illustrated
$33.95 Hardcover

In the Tenth Child Harold Bolter narrates a life that has encompassed great joy as well as heartbreak and betrayal. From childhood poverty in the 1930s to being appointed a CBE in 1992, Bolter's life spans some of the most turbulent years of social and political change. And Bolter was at the forefront of events, covering them first for the Birmingham Post, then moving to the Financial Times. Being a journalist in the late 1960s and 70s meant that he interviewed the Beatles (he wasn't very impressed) and reported on everything form ballet performances by Nureyev and Fonteyn to infamous industrial disputes and political storms.

In 1975 Harold Bolter left the Financial Times to become the public face of British Nuclear Fules, a role even the most dedicated PR professional might quiver at. From the outset he looked public hostility straight in the eye and took on the role of transforming the nuclear industry's tarnished image. Tourist's flocked to his Sellafield Visitors' Centre and went home better informed and happier. Bolter rose through the hierarchy of BNFL to become a main borad director before being forced to resign after facing false allegations of fraud and a very public humiliation.

Harold Bolter endured his own Kafkasque nightmare when the Serious Fraud Squad descended on him on the orders of a government minister and here he gives the inside story of how it felt to find himself in the news instead of writing it.

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