Politics On the Edge

The searing inside story of our broken politics from the former Cabinet minister and co-host of The Rest Is Politics.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.BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024'Rory Stewart's Politics on the Edge digs deeper than most. As well as a fascinating insider account of the Cameron-May-Johnson premierships, it is a scathing portrait of our flawed political system and a 'rebarbative profession' that, despite Stewart's appetite for public service, chewed him up and spat him out' GUARDIAN'Genuinely eye-opening...always riveting, often horrifying'iNEWS'Hugely entertaining'EVENING STANDARD'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* A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE FT, GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, TELEGRAPH, TIMES, OBSERVER, i NEWSPAPER, NEW STATESMAN, PROSPECT, CHURCH TIMES AND SCOTSMAN *(c) 2023 Rory Stewart (P)2023 Penguin Audio