 | Whatever Happened to the Tories: History of the Conservative Party Since 1945 (Fourth Estate paperbacks) by Ian Gilmour
Buy used from: £0.78 Lord Gilmour, sacked from Thatcher's cabinet and vilified in the Clark diaries, takes the pith out of Thatcherism as much as objectively retelling post-war Toryism. FAB!
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 | Goodbye to All That (Essential Penguin) by Robert Graves
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £3.41 Honest. The only book to make me cry! The appendix is a must -it reveals that Graves' later life was fairly uneventful despite his works and the description of the death of his son in the later War.
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 | Saki, The Complete Short Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) by H. Munro
Buy new: £7.12 / Used from: £1.99 A more caustic wit than Wodehouse but still evokes peaceful Edwardiana.
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 | Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography by Sir Richard Branson
Buy used from: £0.01 This probably isn't honest, but predicatably zingy.
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 | The Poetical Works (Wordsworth Poetry Library) by Rupert Brooke
Buy used from: £0.01 Self-indulgent, sentimental and trivial, but I like it (although this is maybe because I'm all three).
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 | Blue Remembered Years: A Political Memoir by Ian Lang
Buy new: £17.00 / Used from: £0.01 The logest serving Scottish Office Minister in its history, coordinator of leadership campaigns and original member of the "Monty Python" set, Lord Lang elucidates Scottish issues eloquently. AMAZING.
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 | Diaries : In Power by Alan Clark
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 The inspiration for Rick Mayall's Alan B'stard. He is one, but he is also clever and fun, unlike many politcos.
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 | Curzon by David Gilmour
Buy used from: £2.60 Yeah, yeah he's deeply flawed but the Curzonian work ethic is inspirational. Author thorough (son of 1. in fact).
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![Friends in High Places: Who Runs Britain? [ Peguin Paperback ]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/417E68R57ML._SL75_.jpg) | Friends in High Places: Who Runs Britain? [ Peguin Paperback ] by Jeremy Paxman
Buy used from: £0.01 Bizzarely more worthwhile for its continuing repetition of the same message. Paxo less sloppy than recently but still some gems of anecdote.
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 | Lord Hailsham: A Life (Pimlico) by Geoffrey Lewis
Buy new: £12.75 / Used from: £0.01 "To deal with Lord Hailsham you don't have to be good at dealing with the elderley but at dealing with children." Admirable yet redolent of the ilk responsible for the decline of Britain.
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 | The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston (Faber Paper-Covered Editions) by Siegfried Sassoon
Buy new: £10.88 / Used from: £2.26 An interesting character.
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