Breaking the Code

by Gyles Brandreth

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  Copyright

  This new edition published in Great Britain in 2014 by

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  Copyright © Gyles Brandreth 1999, 2014

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  STANLEY I RESUME

  FURTHER RECOLLECTIONS OF AN EXUBERANT LIFE

  STANLEY JOHNSON

  Stanley Johnson: one-time spy, politician, animal rights crusader – and irresistibly brilliant raconteur.

  From his career as a Member of the European Parliament to his pioneering work saving the rainforests, Stanley Johnson’s life has roamed many avenues. Amongst much else, he has served on the staff of the World Bank and the European Commission, penned dozens of books, appeared on many popular television shows and won awards for his environmental campaigning, besides fathering six children, including the current Mayor of London.

  This second volume of rip-roaring and hilarious recollections from the man himself begins with him falling out of a tree on his fortieth birthday, then picks up where its acclaimed predecessor, Stanley, I Presume, left off. Along the way, we’re treated to the sights of Stanley posing as a burglar, horrifying Margaret Thatcher with his cocktail party repartee, climbing Kilimanjaro (twice) and navigating the turbulent rapids of parenthood.

  Riotous and illuminating, Stanley, I Resume paints a vivid portrait of a politician, poet and adventurer, an idealist, a family man and – above all – a born storyteller.

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  AN UNEXPECTED MP

  CONFESSIONS OF A POLITICAL GOSSIP

  JERRY HAYES

  ‘S
ome people enter politics because they want to make the world a better place. Then there are those with well-deserved inferiority complexes who want status, power and position. Few believe me, but I entered the House of Commons purely by accident.’

  High virtue in high office? Not a chance, says Jerry Hayes. No staid autobiography or dry political memoir, An Unexpected MP takes you on a raucous and salacious romp through Westminster, the media and public life.

  In this no-holds-barred exposé, Jerry Hayes shows exactly why people were so surprised when he became an MP – from the duty policeman who told him to bugger off when he rolled up on his first day, to the Iron Lady herself, who looked with a steely eye on his cheerful chutzpah.

  Full of tall tales of unspeakable debauchery on a tsunami of alcohol, An Unexpected MP is a thundering account of the offbeat lunacy of Westminster and Fleet Street.

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