Name: Liz Truss’s Bank Job.

Age: Forthcoming.

Appearance: Etiquette dictates that you should never judge a book by its cover.

Yes, but do it anyway. It looks like a poster for one of those bad gangster films Danny Dyer used to make, featuring a shadowy set of tough guys – except, instead of Dyer front and centre, there’s Liz Truss.

So you’re saying this is a book – by Truss? Yes. The former prime minister’s new book is out next week. Its subtitle is A Short Book on How the Bank of England Broke the Bond Market and Brought Down the Government.

I have so many questions. Who wouldn’t? The response to her first book , Ten Years to Save the West, didn’t seem to guarantee that she’d get to publish a second.

OK, first : how short is short? Amazon states that the book comes in at just 99 pages. For reference, that’s about 13 times shorter than War and Peace, or three times shorter than the 2012 memoir by Tulisa from N-Dubz .

Next : who on earth is publishing this?…