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  • Politics on the Edge

  • A Memoir from Within
  • Written by: Rory Stewart
  • Narrated by: Rory Stewart
  • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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Politics on the Edge

Written by: Rory Stewart
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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 *
©2023 Rory Stewart (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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Intriguing political discourse

Rory Stewart seems to have quite the actor's chops. His reading of his own book (and story) leaves you quite entertained for not only does he tell a compelling tale he does so he with much enthusiasm.. his knack for voices, mimicry and intonation comes in very handy in enlivening a rather banal (often a bit sordid) political drama.

I'm only a distant observer of British politics and while this was quite an insider's view of the goings-on, it did leave me a little dissatisfied as to how he failed not from a lack of trying but otherwise. He hardly touched upon it in his drive to prove that he was right about this and right about that! It seemed, at times - not always thankfully, more an account aimed at self glorification than anything else. This said, it was indeed interesting to hear and is worth a read/listen.

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