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I’m Not One To Gossip, But…
Wicked Whispers, William Hickey and Forty Years of Blarney
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
From an embarrassing encounter with Jim Callaghan (and his impressive member) in the gentlemen’s toilet of the Savoy Hotel to the time he was almost throttled by Angela’s Ashes author Frank McCourt, John McEntee’s career has been nothing if not colourful.
After reporting on the IRA terror...
Stand By Your Manhood
An Essential Guide for Modern Men
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK
Men must be the worst oppressors in history - we pay the most taxes, get the least support and play longer matches at Wimbledon for no extra money. We're also more likely to be homeless, circumcised, attacked, jailed, drafted, under-educated, short-changed in parenthood...
A State of War Exists
Reporters in the Line of Fire
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
"The worst moment in a war was my fear I would not be sent to it." So wrote the young Michael Nicholson, a reporter whose astonishing career has covered eighteen major conflicts. Published to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the Falklands War, A State of War Exists sees the veteran...
by Jason Sinclair
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Whichever side of the Labour Party you’re on, you could probably use a good laugh right now…
So rejoice, comrades, for we have the solution. Packed with devastating wit, this priceless compendium has all the finest jokes, scenes and anecdotes to see you through a long, hard political winter.
The...
Splashed!
A Life from Print to Panorama
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Tom Mangold is known to millions as the face of BBC TV's flagship current affairs programme Panorama and as its longest-serving reporter. Splashed! is the 'antidote to the conventional journalist's autobiography' - a compelling, hilarious and raucous revelation of the events that marked an extraordinary...
Dishonourable Insults
A Cantankerous Collection of Political Invective
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Throughout the ages and across the political spectrum, there's always been a place for the dishonourable insult. It doesn't take much for the civilised veneer to crack and a wealth of spleen, invective and innuendo to pour forth. It may not change the course of history, but being skewered in public...
The Prime Ministers Who Never Were
A Collection of Political Counterfactuals
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Each of these chapters in this book of political counterfactuals describes a premiership that never happened, but might easily have done had the chips fallen slightly differently. The contributors, each of them experts in political history, have asked themselves questions like: what shape would the...
The Cabinet Office, 1916–2018
The Birth of Modern Government
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Since its creation in the depths of the Great War in December 1916, the Cabinet Office has retained a uniquely central place in the ever-changing political landscape of the last century.
While the revolving door of 10 Downing Street admits and ejects its inhabitants every few years, the Cabinet...
Shirley Williams
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
For fifty years Shirley Williams has been one of Britain's best-known and best-loved politicians, admired for her warmth, sincerity, integrity and compassion. Hailing from an impeccable intellectual background, the young Shirley seemed destined for great things as she rose effortlessly up the political...
At Power's Elbow
Aides to the Prime Minister from Robert Walpole to David Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Discreet, inconspicuous, prudent... The perfect prime-ministerial aide is always in the background, a low-profile figure unknown outside the Westminster bubble. Unfortunately, reality often falls short of the ideal; for as long as the office of Prime Minister has existed, its occupants have been supported...
Dick Taverne: Against the Tide
Politics and Beyond: A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
In 1973, Labour MP Dick Taverne caused a national sensation when he stood against his own party as an independent to win a historic by-election in Lincoln. Demonstrating the power of the individual against party politics, his bold move was a forerunner for the formation of the SDP some eight years...
David Waddington Memoirs
Dispatches From Margaret Thatcher's Last Home Secretary
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
As a lynchpin of Margaret Thatcher's final Cabinet, David Waddington was at the heart of British politics at the passing of arguably the most defining government of the twentieth century. His memoirs are a testament to many years of loyal service to the Conservative Party, first as a determined constituency...
by Tom Harris
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
For the first eighteen months of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, Labour MPs were in open revolt. The party seemed to be heading back to the early 1980s, when old-school Marxists tried and failed to take over the party, at a shocking electoral cost.
The snap general election called by Theresa...
One in the Eye for Harold
Why everything you thought you knew about history is wrong
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
The problem with history is that much of what you learn in school simply isn't true! For instance, King Harold was NOT shot in the eye with an arrow at the Battle of Hastings, Neanderthals were not as dumb as you'd think, Britain had an Indian curry restaurant years before it had fish-and-chip shops...