Articles tagged Autobiography:

The Decline and Fall of the Political Memoir

  • 13 May 2008

Yesterday I had several invitations from various broadcasters to talk about the three sets of political memoirs set to grace the nation's bookshelves. The only one I took up was Good Morning Wales as I was at a funeral the rest of the day. Quite why the media had got themselve...

EDP Column: Why Do Politicians Write Autobiographies?

  • 8 Oct 2006

    The publication of David Blunkett’s diaries is likely to yield great disappointment for his publishers, Hodder. The reason why this book will rise quickly to that ever growing ‘remainder heaven’ in the sky is that we all believe we know quite enough about David Blunk...