Turning Points
21 September 2023Imprint: Macmillan
Synopsis
The Times Best Politics and Current Affairs Books of the Year
An entertaining and revealing history of modern British politics from Steve Richards, broadcaster, journalist, and author of The Prime Ministers We Never Had.
'Through wonderful vignettes, Richards offers a masterful, clear-eyed and, above all, entertaining history of British politics. To pilot a better future, we need to learn how not to...
Details
21 September 2023416 pages
9781035015351Imprint: Macmillan
Reviews
An engaging canter through postwar Britain . . . shaped by a lifetime of readingProspect
A wonderful book to savour. Only Richards can take you on a journey that flies so gracefully above the hurly-burly of politics and explain what’s actually going onIsabel Hardman, author of Why We Get the Wrong Politicians
A pure pleasure to read. Richards is the ideal companion for anyone wishing to taste, feel and understand the ebbs and flows of the British experience since the end of the Second World War. The key characters live and breathe in his pagesPeter Hennessy, historian and author of A Duty of Care
A masterly account. Insightful, thoughtful and above all full of empathy, Turning Points is a work of understanding as well as scholarshipGavin Esler, journalist and author of How Britain Ends
