{"product_id":"book-9781785908736-gyles-brandreth","title":"Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries, Gyles Brandreth 1st edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition Report\u003c\/strong\u003e Fine:The book is close to As New. It remains bright and attractive, but could show minor imperfections to the boards and\/or dust jacket (if present). Its pages are typically clean and unmarked.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSlight shelf wear to bottom text block but in unread condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Note\u003c\/strong\u003e An excellent, highly crisp copy of Gyles Brandreth’s widely celebrated and indiscreet political diaries. This volume represents the definitive 2024 edition, published featuring extensive retrospective commentary. The text block is perfectly clean, bright, and free of any interior annotations, highlighting, or dog-ears. The spine remains tight, square, and uncreased, indicating it has been carefully handled. The outer softcovers retain their high-gloss brightness, exhibiting only the most minor shelf-rubbing to the extreme base edge from brief storage. An exceptionally attractive, collector-adjacent copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the general election of 1997, the Conservative government was staring into an electoral abyss. The Prime Minister was widely seen as competent but struggling to connect, the Labour opposition was capturing the center ground, and Westminster was awash with scandal.  As a sitting Tory MP and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury during John Major's final years in power, broadcaster and writer Gyles Brandreth provides a masterclass in political observation. Piercing the absolute secrecy of the Whips’ Office, Brandreth's diaries offer an unvarnished, hilariously acute portrait of a ruling party gripped by infighting and fatal dissent. Featuring candid, witty sketches of the era's major political titans—alongside a glimpse at a rising young political hopeful named David Cameron—Breaking the Code is a searingly honest, enduring classic of British political literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadhursts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54040910528851,"sku":"4369","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/1469\/6787\/files\/9781785908736.jpg?v=1781860492","url":"https:\/\/broadhurstsbooks.com\/products\/book-9781785908736-gyles-brandreth","provider":"Broadhursts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}