And it appears as if the fiction-writing bug has spread to Whitehall too.
Civil servant Emran Mian, who will take up the director general role responsible for devolution, decentralisation, cities and local growth at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government in October, has also penned a novel.
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