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Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Through the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family's history through early 20th Century to present day. The history of the Yan family is inseparable from the history of China over the last century.
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Publisher
Bantam Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
When Tony Blair brought Alan Johnson into Parliament in 1997, it was something of a culture shock. Blair famously said to him 'Oh, so you really are working class aren't you'. But Alan eventually took to the corridors of power as to the manner born, fuelled by his passionately held principles and his loyalty to his constituents in Hull West and Hes.
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Language
English
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In this witty, candid and utterly fascinating memoir, Baroness Trumpington looks back on her long and remarkable life. The daughter of an officer in the Bengal Lancers and an American heiress, she was born in 1922 into a world of privilege and luxury. But her mother lost most of her inheritance in the Wall Street Crash and the family retrenched from Mayfair to Sandwich, in Kent, where her mother became a succesful society interior decorator.
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
The story of Jeremy Thorpe's rapid rise and spectacular fall from grace is one of the most remarkable in British politics. Leader of the Liberal Party in 1967 at the age of 37, he seemed destined for great things, but a time-bomb was already ticking.
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Publisher
Biteback Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
In the middle of 2019, Rishi Sunak was an unknown junior minister in the local government department. Seven months later, at the age of thirty-nine, he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, grappling with the gravest economic crisis in modern history. Michael Ashcroft charts Sunak's ascent from his parents Southampton pharmacy to The University of Oxford, the City of London, Silicon Valley and the top of British politics.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
In this volume, biographer Michael Bloch turns his attention to the men of British politics who were forced to lead double lives. Outwardly conforming to the requirements of heterosexual middle class society, many twentieth-century British politicians had illicit, clandestine and often thrilling queer sex lives. Some sought relationships with men of their own class, others with 'rough trade' and some confined themselves to fleeting, anonymous encounters...
11) Wicked beauty
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Series
Laurie Forbes and Elliott Russell volume 2
Language
English
Description
The Hendons are riding high on an ideal marriage and growing political success. Tim is already in the Cabinet, and as they celebrate another election victory, they've no idea that they're on the eve of a nightmare that's going to devastate their lives.
Author
Publisher
Biteback Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Over a decade before Margaret Thatcher swept to power, another Englishwoman was running Britain from 10 Downing Street: Marcia Williams was the first ever female political adviser to a Prime Minister, and she was said to have a powerful grip on her boss. Historian Ben Pimlott called the relationship between Marcia and Prime Minister Harold Wilson, 'the most famous and mysterious partnership in modern political history'. Labour Home Secretary Roy Jenkins...
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Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Ken Clarke charts his remarkable progress from working-class scholarship boy in Nottinghamshire to high political office and the upper echelons of both his party and of government. But he is not a straightforward Conservative politician. His position on the left of the party often led Margaret Thatcher to question his true blue credentials and his passionate commitment to the European project has led many fellow Conservatives to regard him with suspicion...
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Publisher
Biteback Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Sir Keir Starmer has played many parts during his life and career. He went from schoolboy socialist to radical lawyer before surprising many by joining the establishment, first as Director of Public Prosecutions and then, in 2015, as an MP. At Westminster, he was swiftly elevated to the shadow cabinet and, in April 2020, became leader of the Labour Party. But what makes him tick? Is the architect of Labour's second-referendum Brexit policy - which...
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Publisher
Two Roads
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of Jo Cox's tragic death in 2016, her husband Brendan Cox urged us to remember Jo's life and what she stood for and not the manner of her death. In this moving and impassioned portrait of Jo - as daughter, mother, wife, sister, MP and activist - we see how much she gave and how much more she had to give, and her legacy of values and beliefs which will live on.
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