**AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW** 'The most enthralling kind of historical fiction.' HILARY MANTEL From the author of the Kingmaker series, an epic and intimate tale of adventure, myth and the creation of one of literature's greatest stories. Warwick, 1468. One drowsy summer afternoon, Sir Thomas Malory - politician, courtier, outlaw, renowned author of Le Morte D'Arthur - is seized from his garden and dragged to Newgate Prison for reasons unknown. Shivering...

?A tremendously impressive book.?-Washington Post ?Her motto and title of her autobiography-Unbought and Unbossed-illustrates her outspoken advocacy for women and minorities during her seven terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.?-National Women?s History Museum In this classic work-a blend of memoir, social criticism, and political analysis that remains relevant today-the first Black Congresswoman to serve in American history, New York?s dynamic...

A powerful biography of one of the greatest public servants of all time - Jeremy Heywood - written by his wife Suzanne Heywood. Jeremy Heywood was at the centre of political power in this country for more than 25 years and directly served four Prime Ministers in various roles including as the Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, as the first and only Permanent Secretary of 10 Downing Street, the Cabinet Secretary and the Head of the...

Nicholas Kochan traces Ann Widdecombe's life from childhood in Bath, through convent school education, university and local politics, to a political career which has made her the uncrowned deputy leader of the Conservative party.

Presenting an expose of the sexual lives that simmer behind the stuffy doors of the Palace of Westminster, this guide confesses the politician's own sordid misdemeanors, while showing how the people elected to help govern us are as fallible, and as frisky, as the rest of us.

This biography charts Nancy Astor's incredible story, from relative penury in the American South to a lifestyle of the most immense riches through the 'Jazz Age' and beyond, a world of enormous countryside estates and townhouses, and the most lavish entertainments, peopled by the great figures of the day.

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.

Shirley Williams was born to politics. As well as being influenced by her mother, Vera Brittian, her father George Caitlin, a leading political scientist, encouraged his daughter to have high ambitions for herself. This is an autobiography of her life.

Kafka meets The Thick Of It in a bitingly funny new political satire from Ian McEwan Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain - and it is his mission to carry out the will of the people. Nothing must get in his way: not the opposition, nor the dissenters within his own party. Not even the rules of parliamentary democracy. With trademark...

Peter Popham's biography of Aung San Suu Kyi draws upon previously untapped testimony and fresh revelations to tell the story of a woman whose bravery and determination have captivated people around the globe.