Politics On the Edge: The instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller from the host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics
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Politics On the Edge: The instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller from the host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics

Politics On the Edge: The instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller from the host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics

By
Rory Stewart (Author)  

Paperback

PRE-ORDER released 06 June 2024

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A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabinet minister and co-presenter of breakout hit podcast The Rest Is Politics

The Times Political Book of the Year

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.

PRAISE FOR POLITICS ON THE EDGE

'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

'Genuinely eye-opening...always riveting, often horrifying' iNEWS

'Beautifully written' GUARDIAN

'Hugely entertaining' EVENING STANDARD

**A FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, TIMES, OBSERVER, i NEWSPAPER, NEW STATESMAN, PROSPECT, CHURCH TIMES AND SCOTSMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023**

Rory Stewart served in the UK Cabinet as Secretary of State for International Development, and before that as Prisons Minister, Minister for Africa, Minister for Development, Environment Minister and Chair of the Defence Committee. He ran against Boris Johnson for the leadership of the Conservative Party in 2019. Earlier in his career he was briefly in the British Army, before serving as a diplomat in Indonesia, the Balkans and Iraq, establishing and running a charity in Afghanistan, and holding a chair at Harvard University. His 21-month 6,000-milewalk across Asia, including Afghanistan, is recorded in his New York Times bestseller, The Places in Between. His other books include Occupational Hazards, and The Marches.Stewart is now the Brady-Johnson Professor of the Practice of Grand Strategy at Yale University's Jackson School of Global Affairs, a senior adviser at the non-profit organisation GiveDirectly, and the co-host with Alastair Campbell of the UK's leading podcast The Rest Is Politics. He tweets at @RoryStewartUK.
  • Contributor: Rory Stewart
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • ISBN13: 9781529922868
  • Number of Pages: 464
  • Packaged Dimensions: 128x197x31mm
  • Packaged Weight: 320
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Release Date: 2024-06-06
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Rory Stewart served in the UK Cabinet as Secretary of State for International Development, and before that as Prisons Minister, Minister for Africa, Minister for Development, Environment Minister and Chair of the Defence Committee. He ran against Boris Johnson for the leadership of the Conservative Party in 2019. Earlier in his career he was briefly in the British Army, before serving as a diplomat in Indonesia, the Balkans and Iraq, establishing and running a charity in Afghanistan, and holding a chair at Harvard University. His 21-month 6,000-milewalk across Asia, including Afghanistan, is recorded in his New York Times bestseller, The Places in Between. His other books include Occupational Hazards, and The Marches.Stewart is now the Brady-Johnson Professor of the Practice of Grand Strategy at Yale University's Jackson School of Global Affairs, a senior adviser at the non-profit organisation GiveDirectly, and the co-host with Alastair Campbell of the UK's leading podcast The Rest Is Politics. He tweets at @RoryStewartUK.

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