Andrew Gimson Libri

Taking the reader through the lives of our monarchs, this book tells a tale of bastardy, courage, conquest, brutality, vanity, vulgarity, corruption, anarchy, absenteeism, piety, nobility, divorce, execution, civil war, madness, magnificence, profligacy, frugality, philately, abdication, dutifulness, family breakdown and family recovery.

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA concise, sharp-witted and illuminating account of the lives of Britain's prime ministers from Walpole to May, illustrated by Martin Rowson.

A brilliant new biography of Boris Johnson from his best biographer, Andrew Gimson

The definitive word on Boris Johnson, the UK's most colourful politician who led the country to Brexit but missed out on becoming PM