{"product_id":"9781787332713","title":"Politics On the Edge : The instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller from the host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Rory Stewart\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eEngland\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 14 September 2023 by Vintage Publishing (Jonathan Cape Ltd) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003eHardback | 464 pages\u003cbr\u003e165 x 243 x 42mm | 704g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament, by the former Cabinet minister and co-presenter of hit podcast 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 FAULKSOver the course of a decade from 2010, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTackling ministerial briefs on flood response and prison violence, engaging with conflict and poverty abroad as a foreign minister, and Brexit as a Cabinet minister, Stewart learned first-hand how profoundly hollow our democracy and government had become.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCronyism, ignorance and sheer incompetence ran rampant. Around him, individual politicians laid the foundations for the political and economic chaos of today. Stewart emerged battered but with a profound affection for his constituency of Penrith and the Border, and a deep direct insight into the era of populism and global conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUncompromising, candid and darkly humorous, Politics On the Edge is his story of the challenges, absurdities and realities of political life and a remarkable portrait of our age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e**A FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, TIMES, OBSERVER, i NEWSPAPER, NEW STATESMAN, PROSPECT, CHURCH TIMES AND SCOTSMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023**Politics on the Edge was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller from 09.09.23–16.09.23, and 09.12.23–16.12.23, and 30.12.23–06.01.24\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rory Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64838597312861,"sku":"9781787332713","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1074\/9358\/9341\/files\/9781787332713.jpg?v=1780056113","url":"https:\/\/adventureintobooks.co.uk\/products\/9781787332713","provider":"Adventure Into Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}