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The Impossible Office?
A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year. The recent political chaos enfolding Downing Street provides the framing for the extraordinary story of the office of Prime Minister, and how and why it has endured longer than any other democratic political office in world history. Sir Anthony Seldon, historian of Number 10, explores the lives and careers, crises and scandals, and successes and failures of our great Prime Ministers from Robert Walpole to Clement Attlee and Margaret Thatcher, up to the recent churn of Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak. Seldon discusses which of our PMs have been most effective and why, as well as probing the changing relationship between the Monarchy and the Prime Minister in intimate detail. A celebration of the humanity, frailty, work and achievements of 57 remarkable individuals who averted revolution and civil war, leading the country through times of peace, crisis and war.
"Your Loving Son"
This book is a compilation of various sources that form a coherent narrative that leads up to, documents, and explores the repercussions of the death of George McCowan King, a navigator in the Royal Canadian Air Force who was shot down over Germany on September 22, 1943. Focussing on the period from late 1942 to the end of the war, but extending even into the 1990s, the voices that combine to tell the story of the navigator's life and death include his letters, the letters of other family members, correspondence with families of other servicemen & friends, diary & logbook entries, and official government missives concerning the circumstances of the death and the naming of King Creek in northern Saskatchewan.
Statesmen, Strategists, and Diplomats
Foreign policy is a tricky business. Typically, challenges and proposed solutions are perceived as disparate unless a leader can amass enough support for an idea that creates alignment. And because the prime minister is typically the one proposing that idea, Canadian foreign policy can be analyzed through the actions of these leaders. Statesmen, Strategists, and Diplomats explores how prime ministers from Sir John A. Macdonald to Justin Trudeau have shaped foreign policy by manipulating government structures, adopting and rejecting options, and imprinting their personalities on the process. Contributors consider the impact of a wide range of policy decisions – increasing or decreasing department budgets, forming or ending alliances, and pursuing trade relationships – particularly as these choices affected the bureaucracies that deliver foreign policy diplomatically and militarily. This innovative focus is destined to trigger a new appreciation for the formidable personal attention and acuity involved in a successful approach to external affairs.
The Cabinet Office, 1916-2016
The first, definitive history of one of Britain's most important political institutions.
The Impossible Office?
Over 300 years, fifty-seven individuals have held the office of British Prime Minister - who have been the best and worst?
Truss at 10
*THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* 'Enticingly structured... Commendable... The menu is well known, but is deliciously seasoned all the same.' The Times [A] forensic and eloquent evisceration of Truss's chaotic and catastrophic 49 days in No 10' Independent 'A textbook on bad government' Dominic Grieve, Guardian The shortest-serving prime minister in history. The first former leader to lose their seat since 1935. An inside look at how it all went so wrong. Liz Truss's disastrous premiership was the shortest and most chaotic in British history. In the space of just 49 days, Truss witnessed the death of the longest-reigning monarch, attempted to remould the economy, triggered a collapse ...
Shy
A collection of Canadian literature on the topic of shyness.
The Garden
From the critically acclaimed author comes an eerie, psychologically thrilling novel about womanhood and bodily autonomy ___________________ ' Pet Sematary meets Rosemary's Baby with a literary sheen' NEW YORK TIMES 'A feminist voice for the 21st century' JOYCE CAROL OATES 'Prepare to be haunted' RACHEL YODER ___________________ It's 1948, and Irene Willard has had five miscarriages. She's desperate to give her beloved husband the child he desperately desires and, now pregnant for the sixth time, checks in to an isolated house-cum-hospital run by a husband-and-wife team of doctors who are pioneering a cure, they say, to 'rectify the maternal environment'. There, she befriends Margaret and Pe...
The Only Way Is Up
Labour have won their most decisive victory in decades. But what damage has been done to the country and how do Labour fix it? Political change has arrived. But the new Westminster government's inheritance looks grim. We're all in it together, the Tories used to claim, but they left behind sharper social divisions and vastly greater inequality with widening gaps in class, wealth and income. Collapsing public services at home, coupled with threats from a scorching earth and war in Europe, have left our country with gaping unfulfilled commitments. The Only Way is Up gives us a ready reckoner on how to repair the damage and set the UK on the path to sustainable growth. Combining the latest data with expert analysis across health, children's services, the economy, environment, policing and defence, Polly Toynbee and David Walker tell the story of what went wrong during the Tories' wild ride and what must now be remedied.
