Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2014
Winner of the Orwell Prize 2014
Alan Johnson was born in May 1950. He is a British Labour Party
politician who served as Home Secretary from June 2009 to May 2010.
Before that he filled a wide variety of cabinet positions in both
the Blair and Brown governments, including Health Secretary and
Education Secretary. Until 20 January 2011 he was Shadow Chancellor
of the Exchequer. Johnson was the Member of Parliament for Hull
West and Hessle until his retirement from politics in 2017.
His first book, This Boy, won the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Orwell
Prize in 2013. His second, Please Mister Postman, won the National
Book Award for Autobiography of the Year in 2014. His third, The
Long and Winding Road, was published in 2016 and won the
Parliamentary Book Award for Best Memoir.
the best memoir by a politician you will ever read
*The Times*
a poignant memoir…Johnson writes wonderfully
*Telegraph*
deeply moving and unforgettable
*Sunday Times*
a handsome and eloquent tribute
*Guardian*
beautifully, beautifully written... his style is utterly simple,
with a wit so understated that every reader will believe that he or
she alone got it
*Independent on Sunday*
Neither mawkish nor sentimental, it is an evocative, filmic account
on an early childhood... would make a fabulous drama that, for all
its squalor, lifts the spirits
*Daily Telegraph*
a testament to the power of family love and a tribute to two strong
women
*Daily Mail*
Wonderful and moving... unreadable with a dry eye
*The Times*
the biography of a politician like no other - beautifully observed,
humorous, moving, uplifting; told with a dry self-deprecating wit
and not a trace of self-pity
*Observer*
No ordinary politician's memoir ... wonderful.
*The Spectator*
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