Product Description
Politics On the Edge
Author: Rory Stewart
Format: Paperback
The searing inside story of our broken politics from the former Cabinet minister and co-host of 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, 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.
Uncompromising, honest and darkly humorous, this is his story of the challenges, absurdities and realities of political life. Instantly praised as a new classic, it is an astonishing portrait of our turbulent times.
'Genuinely eye-opening...always riveting, often horrifying'
iNEWS
'Beautifully written' — Guardian
'Hugely entertaining' — Evening Standard
British Book Awards Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2024
* A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE FT, GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, TELEGRAPH, TIMES, OBSERVER, i NEWSPAPER, NEW STATESMAN, PROSPECT, CHURCH TIMES AND SCOTSMAN *
Politics on the Edge was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller from 09.09.23-16.09.23, 09.12.23-16.12.23, 30.12.23-06.01.24 and 11.06.24-25.06.24.
About the Author
Rory Stewart lived in and around the Eden Valley of Cumbria for ten years, serving as the Member of Parliament for Penrith and the Border. He is half Scottish and half English. He is the author of several prize-winning and bestselling books including The Places in Between, a New York Times bestseller, and, most recently, Politics On the Edge, a no. 1 Sunday Times bestseller. Stewart is currently Brady-Johnson Professor of the Practice of Grand Strategy at Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs, and the co-host of the leading UK podcast The Rest Is Politics.
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