The searing inside story of our broken politics from the former Cabinet minister and co-host of The Rest Is Politics.‘The most exceptional political memoir I’ve ever read’ALAN JOHNSON‘An instant classic’MARINA HYDE‘At last a politician who can write’SEBASTIAN FAULKSOver the course of a decade, Rory Stewart went from being a political outsider to standing for pri...

‘Tragic, touching and terrifying’ – The Telegraph‘A flat-out masterpiece’ – The New York Times Book ReviewEmbark on a death-defying journey through war-torn Afghanistan in this moving travelogue from Rory Stewart, bestselling author of Politics on the Edge and co-host of the hit podcast The Rest Is Politics.Caught between hostile nations, warring factions and competing id...

**THE NO. 1 BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF POLITICS ON THE EDGECombining memoir, history and travel writing, a moving exploration of landscape, identity and the love between a father and son.**Rory Stewart and his father set out on their final walk together along the border between England and Scotland.On their 600-mile thirty-day journey, the pair relive Scottish dances, talk about Burmese honey bears and the loss of human presence in the countryside around them. ...

**Brought to you by Penguin.#1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE FT, GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, TELEGRAPH, TIMES, OBSERVER, i NEWSPAPER, NEW STATESMAN, PROSPECT, CHURCH TIMES AND SCOTSMAN***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...

The New York Times bestselling account of a thirty-six-day walk across Afghanistan, shortly after the fall of the Taliban: "stupendous . . . an instant travel classic" ( Entertainment Weekly).In January 2002, Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan, surviving by his wits, the kindness of strangers, and his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs. By day he passed through mountains covered in nine feet of snow, hamlets burned and emptied by ...

**A fascinating insight into the complexity, history and unpredictability of Iraq. From Rory Stewart, bestselling author of Politics on the Edge and host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics.‘Devastating’ - The Sunday Times‘Absolutely absorbing’ - Ken Loach**By September 2003, six months after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the anarchy had begun. Rory Stewart, then a young British diplomat, was appointed as the Coalition Provisional Authority's deputy ...

Negen jaar was hij lid van het Britse Lagerhuis, en nog wel van de Conservatieve Partij, tot verrassing van velen. Hij was minister onder David Cameron en Theresa May, maar toen Boris Johnson aan de macht kwam, hield hij het voor gezien. Inmiddels herkende Rory Stewart zijn eigen partij niet meer. Nu doet hij, nadat hij door zijn eigen partij is verraden, zijn verhaal uit de doeken.Zelden heeft een oud-politicus zijn politieke leven zo beeldend en literair beschreven als Rory Stewar...

**The #1 Sunday Times bestseller • Named a best book of the year by Foreign Affairs, Financial Times, and Kirkus Reviews“One of the best books on politics our era will see . . . A book of astonishing literary quality.” *—*Matthew Parris,The TLS“[Rory Stewart] walked across Asia, served in British Parliament, and ran against Boris Johnson. Now he gives us his view of what’s wrong with politics, and how we can make it right.” —Adam...

Urgent and inspiring stories of rural Britain today, from the Sunday Times no. 1 bestselling author of Politics on the Edge‘A triumph’ LITERARY REVIEW‘A rare and life-affirming story of searching and finding our place to be and to cherish’ MICHAEL MORPURGO‘Urgent and inspiring… Deeply rooted in history and the land, personal, wise and often funny’ CAROLINE LUCASRor...

An adventurous diplomat's "engrossing and often darkly humorous" memoir of working with Iraqis after the fall of Saddam Hussein ( Publishers Weekly).In August 2003, at the age of thirty, Rory Stewart took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad. A Farsi-speaking British diplomat who had recently completed an epic walk from Turkey to Bangladesh, he was soon appointed deputy governor of Amarah and then Nasiriyah, provinces in the remote, impoverished ...

Wandelen is de laatste jaren steeds populairder geworden. Het is zelfs de favoriete vrijetijdsbesteding van de Nederlander. Maar ook buiten Nederland is wandelen onverminderd populair. De Brit Rory Stewart, misschien wel de beroemdste wandelaar van Europa, schreef een bestseller over de edele kunst van het wandelen: De Schotse Marsen.De Schotse Marsen is het schitterende relaas van een wandeltocht door een zoon en zijn 89-jarige vader. Samen wandelen ze langs de M...

Ten years after the walk across Central Asia and Afghanistan that he memorialized in his bestselling The Places in Between, Rory Stewart set out on a new journey, traversing a thousand miles between England and Scotland. Stewart was raised along the border of the two countries, the frontier taking on poignant significance in his understanding of what it means to be both Scottish and English, of his relationship with his father, who's lived on this land his whole life, and of his ties to th...