I’m honoured to have made the cut for this Guardian Books
list of the Top 10 books about Westminster politics, as selected by the
novelist and ex-BBC reporter Terri Stiatsny.
Having had a go at a similar list
in the past I know it would be a hard thing to get to a Top 20 without
resorting to filler material, i.e. the great many books that depict democratically
elected politicians as venal, craven, thieving scum, which is to speak of books
that don’t have much to do with life itself – since, as Senator Silas
Radcliffe, anti-hero of Henry Adams’ Democracy, puts it, ‘No representative
government can long be much better or much worse than the society it
represents.’
So, a thoroughly agreeable thing for me to rubbing shoulders
with Hilary Mantel, House of Cards, James Graham’s This House, and the Alans
Clark and Hollinghurst...
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