BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament, by the former Cabinet minister and co-presenter of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics
'The most exceptional political memoir I've ever read' ALAN JOHNSON
'An instant classic' MARINA HYDE
'At last a politician who can write' SEBASTIAN FAULKS
Over the course of a decade from 2010, Rory Stewart went from being a political outsider to standing for prime minister - before being sacked from a Conservative Party that he had come to barely recognise.
Tackling ministerial briefs on flood response and prison violence, engaging with conflict and poverty abroad as a foreign minister, and Brexit as a Cabinet minister, Stewart learned first-hand how profoundly hollow our democracy and government had become.
Cronyism, ignorance and sheer incompetence ran rampant. Around him, individual politicians laid the foundations for the political and economic chaos of today. Stewart emerged battered but with a profound affection for his constituency of Penrith and the Border, and a deep direct insight into the era of populism and global conflict.
Uncompromising, candid and darkly humorous, Politics On the Edge is his story of the challenges, absurdities and realities of political life and a remarkable portrait of our age.
**A FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, TIMES, OBSERVER, i NEWSPAPER, NEW STATESMAN, PROSPECT, CHURCH TIMES AND SCOTSMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023**
Politics on the Edge was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller from 09.09.23–16.09.23, and 09.12.23–16.12.23, and 30.12.23–06.01.24
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Politics On the Edge 9781787332713 Hardback
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Politics on the Edge
Rory Stewart seems to be cleverer than everyone else - so why isn't he PM?
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Excellent book and well written.
I thought this book might be interesting - and it was! A delightful read.
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Startling inside story
Although my views differ from RS's, I found the book riveting: the machinations and wheeler-dealing that go on in government and the ridiculous way ministers are moved about without any prior knowledge of their brief beggars belief. A real eye-opener.
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Politics on the edge
Book has riveted my partner, though he finds it very irritating ( the writers class and inbuilt sense of entitlement).
- Authors:
- Stewart, Rory
- Year Published:
- 2023
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Hardback
- ISBN:
- 9781787332713
- Number of Pages:
- 464
- Publication Date:
- 14/09/2023
- Publisher:
- Vintage Publishing
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Language:
- English
- SKU:
- 9781787332713