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Bodyguard

My Life on the Front Line

by Craig Summers
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012

Craig Summers had one of the most dangerous jobs in television. His task? Keeping adventurous celebrities alive. Summers was the BBC's security advisor through some of its most turbulent years. His job took him to war zones, scenes of natural disaster and big international sporting events - as well...

Turbulent Times

The Memoirs of Ronald McIntosh

by Ronald McIntosh
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014

From the conflict-stricken waters of his wartime service in the Merchant Navy to the restless corridors of power in Whitehall and the tumult of the Yeltsin years in Russia, Sir Ronald McIntosh has never been far from the centre of events. As Director General of the National Economic Development Office...

Call Me Dave

The Unauthorised Biography of David Cameron

by Michael Ashcroft
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015

After a decade as Conservative Party leader and six years as Prime Minister, he remains an enigma to those outside his exclusive inner circle. Now, in the wake of his dramatic resignation following the sensational EU referendum campaign, this new edition of the book that 'got the world talking'...

Nick Clegg

The Biography

by Chris Bowers
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012

In early April 2010 Nick Clegg was fighting for recognition, even as the young, fresh and personable leader of Britain's third political party. Two weeks later he was the focus of 'Cleggmania' and his popularity was compared with Churchill's. Four weeks after that he became the second most important...

How to Win a Marginal Seat

My Year Fighting For My Political Life

by Gavin Barwell
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016

During the 2015 general election, the contest in Gavin Barwell’s constituency of Croydon Central was by any measure - the amount of money spent, the frequency of visits by ministers, the volume of literature delivered or the number of political activists pounding the streets - one of the most intensive...

Conundrum

Why Every Government Gets Things Wrong - And What We Can Do About It

by Richard Bacon
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013

Government failure is affecting everyone. The single mum worried sick by a tax credit demand from HMRC to 'repay' thousands of pounds she never received; the family whose holiday was ruined because the Passport Office couldn't issue passports in time; the school that couldn't open at the start of...
by Paul Flynn
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012

Best summer reads 2015 John Crace, Guardian Not for everyone the title of Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary or other such hallowed callings; the vast majority of the House of Commons is made up of backbenchers – the power behind the constitutionally elected throne. Here is a guide...

Last Trains

Dr Beeching and the death of rural England

by Charles Loft
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013

During the course of the 1950s England lost confidence in its rulers and convinced itself it must modernise. The bankrupt, steam-powered railway, run by a Colonel Blimp, symbolised everything that was wrong with the country; the future lay in motorways and high-speed electric - or even atomic - express...

Ultimate Folly

The Rises and Falls of Whitaker Wright

by Henry Macrory
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018

A gripping story of greed, treachery and ruthless ambition. Few people have led such an extraordinary life as Whitaker Wright. Few have died in such sensational circumstances. Beginning his career as an impoverished preacher, Wright crossed the Atlantic to prospect for gold, surviving a Native...
by John Biffen
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013

Immensely respected on both sides of the House, John Biffen was a man of charm, wisdom and intelligence. Celebrated as one of the cleverest and nicest politicians around, he brought to the Conservative benches one of the most original economic minds of his generation. Biffen served as Chief Secretary...

Power Trip

The Epilogue

by Damian McBride
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014

*The Explosive New Chapters* The long-awaited epilogue to what's been hailed as the must-read political book of the year by commentators on all sides of the great divide. In addition to material covering the phone-hacking scandal previously excluded for legal reasons, in these final three chapters...

Think Tank

The Story of the Adam Smith Institute

by Madsen Pirie
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012

In the 1970s, as the country's post-war love affair with socialism began to sour, a new type of think tank opened its doors in Britain. Spearheading a rejection of state planning and controls, the Adam Smith Institute helped to put incentives and enterprise firmly back into the political mainstream....
by Austin Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018

Shortlisted for the Political Books Awards ‘Best Parliamentary Memoir 2018’ Austin Mitchell is a political maverick. For thirty-eight years he was a fly in the parliamentary ointment, a recurring itch on the body politic. A maverick may annoy the whips, threaten party discipline...

Forman's Games

The Dark Underside of the London Olympics

by Lance Forman
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016

On 6 July 2005, the world held a collective intake of breath as IOC president Jacques Rogge declared: 'The games of the 30th Olympiad in 2012 are awarded to the city of … London.' Despite the images of jubilant crowds in the streets of Britain's capital, there were some, like Lance Forman,...
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