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Whatever Next?
Reminiscences of a Journey Through Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
In this charming and poignant memoir, the 13th Earl Ferrers - 'a farmer who got caught up in the slipstream of politics' - reflects on a life very well lived. Alongside contemplative musings on politics, religion, relationships and the meaning of life are humorous anecdotes - on his aristocratic upbringing...
People Like Us
Margaret Thatcher and Me
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
The first ever female private secretary to any British Prime Minister, Caroline Slocock had a front-row seat for the final eighteen months of Margaret Thatcher's premiership. A left-wing feminist, Slocock was no natural ally and yet she became fascinated by the woman behind the Iron Lady façade and...
Down With the Royals
(Provocations)
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
When Prince George was just eight weeks old, the Evening Standard declared him to be 'the most influential person in London'. He couldn't even walk, let alone talk. Yet one day he could become head of state, whether we like it or not. Joan Smith argues that it has become nearly impossible to question...
Goodbye To Boleyn
West Ham’s Final Season at Upton Park and the Big Kick-off at Stratford
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
"Essex scribe and literary Hammer Pete May writes with humour and eloquence about the most turbulent year of change at the Boleyn since Ken’s Café got a tub of Flora." Phill Jupitus
West Ham's final season at the Boleyn Ground was always going to be memorable. It featured a new...
by Brian Mawhinney
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
This simple Belfast boy was to find himself at the centre of politics during some of the most tumultuous events of recent British history - the peace process in Ireland, Britain in Europe, Thatcher versus Major. This momentous autobiography is full of the acerbic wit and outspoken opinion that characterises...
Winning Here
My Campaigning Life: Memoirs Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Chris Rennard’s long relationship with the Liberals, and later the Liberal Democrats, began when a compassionate Liberal candidate helped his disabled mother receive her widowed mother allowance. By his 20s Rennard was the most successful election campaigner his party has ever known.
He helped...
Hopes and Fears
Trump, Clinton, the voters and the future
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Donald Trump's election as President of the United States confounded the pundits and crowned a year of political surprises.
In Hopes And Fears, Lord Ashcroft sets out in compelling detail why America sent Trump to the White House. With the rigorous research and analysis that is his hallmark,...
Guilty Men
Brexit Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Britain's 2016 vote to leave the EU was the most momentous democratic decision ever made in British history. No development since the Second World War is likely to have more far-reaching consequences for the British economy, society, politics and culture. Some predict it will lead eventually to the...
Breaking News
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Until his retirement at the end of 2016, Jeremy Thompson was one of the longest-serving journalists and news anchors in the UK.
During a forty-year career in television news, Thompson gained a reputation as the consummate broadcaster, latterly as the anchor of Sky News’ early evening programme,...
Distilling the Frenzy
Writing the History of One's Own Timed
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
In Distilling the Frenzy, the UK's leading contemporary historian examines the special considerations that apply to writing the history of one's own times, and revisits the grand themes running through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He looks at Britain's persistent impulse to punch well...
Fighters and Quitters
Great Political Resignations
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
They say the first rule of politics is never to resign. It seems, however, that Britain’s leaders have all too often failed – or refused – to heed this sage advice.
Fighters and Quitters charts the scandals, controversies and cock-ups that have obliterated dreams of high office, from...
Memories of Margaret Thatcher
A Portrait, By Those Who Knew Her Best
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Margaret Thatcher is a British icon. There is no denying her place in history as Britain's greatest peacetime Prime Minister. The reaction to her death confirms that twenty-three years after leaving office she still bestrides the political scene, both in Britain and around the world, like a colossus....
Seat by Seat
The Political Anorak's Guide to Potential Gains and Losses in the 2015 General Election
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
The 2015 general election is almost upon us, but the question on everyone's mind is also the one that no one seems to be able to answer: What's the result going to be? While political commentators all nervously agree it will be 'one to remember', the truth is that this is the most unpredictable election...
by Tim Carr, Iain Dale, Robert Waller
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Following Theresa May's shock general election announcement, the UK political landscape looks set to change dramatically. Will predictions of a Tory landslide come to pass, or will the pollsters be surprised again? Whatever the result, the latest edition of the bestselling Politicos Guide to the New...