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Summer Reading List for Parliamentarians
Summer Reading List for Parliamentarians 02 This year marks the Publishers Association’s 125th anniversary. In honour of our quasquicentennial, we are delighted to present a Summer Reading List for Parliamentarians that celebrates the capacity for books to educate, inspire and entertain. All the following titles have been nominated by MPs, Peers, publishers and journalists as their recommended read for the Summer Recess. We are very grateful to the parliamentarians who made submissions, with particular thanks to Nickie Aiken MP for her ongoing support for this project.
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The Rt Hon Tobias Lord Tyler The Rt Hon Alister Jack MP
Ellwood MP Agent Sonya Secretary of State for Scotland
Chair, Select Committee on Defence Ben Macintyre
Churchill’s Ministry of
2034 Ungentlemanly Warfare
Admiral James Stavridis and Elliot Giles Milton
The Rt Hon Sir Ed Davey MP
Ackerman
Leader of the Liberal Democrats
Uncomfortably close to where things
Baroness Bonham Carter
may go! An Extra Pair of Hands
Kate Mosse Liberal Democrat Lords
Spokesperson for Culture, Media
A wonderfully candid exploration of
Simon Baynes MP what’s it like caring for a loved one:
and Sport
A Bookshop in Algiers the love and joy, but also the many Crow Lake
Kaouther Adimi sacrifices, challenges and frustrations Mary Lawson
that are often hidden from view.
Tim Farron MP
Mims Davies MP
Brendan Clarke-Smith MP Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of
APPG for Publishing Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
State for Employment, Department
for Work and Pensions Full Time: The Secret Life Of Death and the Chevalier
Tony Cascarino Robin Blake
A Single Thread
Tracy Chevalier Paul Kimmage
The Rt Hon Gavin
Williamson MP
Ian Murray MP The Rt Hon Dr Therese
Coffey MP Secretary of State for Education
Shadow Secretary of State for
Scotland Secretary of State for Work and All Quiet on the Western Front
Pensions Erich Remarque
A Song for the Dark Times
Ian Rankin Bad Blood:Secrets and Lies in
a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyou
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The Rt Hon Brandon Lewis MP The Rt Hon Robert The Rt Hon Nigel Evans MP
Secretary of State for Northern Buckland QC MP Second Deputy Chairman of Ways
Ireland Lord Chancellor and Secretary of and Means and Deputy Speaker
Excalibur State for Justice God Save La France
Bernard Cornwell Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Stephen Clarke
Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38 It encapsulates the irritants and
Edited by Simon Heffer delights of both France and the
Rachel Reeves MP French, England and the English to
Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer a beautiful rich degree that you find
Rachel Maclean MP yourself nodding and laughing at both.
Fantastically Great Women Who
Worked Wonders Parliamentary Under-Secretary of
Kate Pankhurst State, Department for Transport
Anonymous
A really wonderful children’s book that French Exit
Patrick deWitt Greater: Britain after the Storm
can show young girls – including my
Penny Mordaunt and Chris Lewis
own daughter – what women can As a frequent practitioner of the French
achieve, from Nasa scientists to hot-air Exit myself, I loved and laughed all
balloonists. the way through this light novel. Jason Groves
Daily Mail
Carolyn Harris MP Anonymous Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Deputy Leader, Welsh Labour Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo Just a great read – life, love and
Artemis Fowl
politics in 1960s Nigeria, with the
Eoin Colfer
thrum of the grisly Biafran War
Christine Jardine MP getting louder by the chapter.
Ruth Edwards MP
Liberal Democrat Spokesperson
How to Avoid A Climate Disaster for Treasury Alistair Carmichael MP
Bill Gates
Hamnet Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for
Very clear breakdown of the problems Maggie O’Farrell Home Affairs
of climate change and technology
In a Veil of Mist
driven ideas for how we solve them.
Donald S. Murray
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Kate Green OBE MP Stephen Lotinga Nadhim Zahawi MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Chief Executive, Publishers Parliamentary Under Secretary of
Education Association State for Business, Industry and for
COVID Vaccine Deployment
Hamnet Klara and the Sun
Maggie O’Farrell Kazuo Ishiguro How Innovation Works: And Why
It Flourishes in Freedom
A beautifully written story with An exquisitely written book from one
Matt Ridley
a poignant timeliness as we live of the world’s greatest authors, which
through our own plague years. will make you ask questions about
science, AI, and genetic enhancement,
but most of all about the nature of The Rt Hon Nick Thomas-
Adrian Wooldridge human emotions. Symonds MP
The Economist Shadow Home Secretary
The Aristocracy of Talent In Place of Fear
Jonathan Reynolds MP
Adrian Wooldridge Aneurin Bevan
Shadow Secretary of State for Work
A history and defence of the It is the finest exposition of socialism
and Pensions
meritocratic idea, at a time when it is ever written.
coming in for unprecedented criticism Home Truths
Liam Halligan
The best book I have come across on the The Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP
The Rt Hon Robert Halfon MP UK’s housing crisis – essential reading. Secretary of State for Health and
Chair, Select Committee on Social Care
Education
Lord Sharkey Destined for War
The Silmarillion Graham Allison
J. R. R. Tolkien How Will Capitalism End?
Wolfgang Streeck
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Stephen Bush Theo Clarke MP Baroness Rebuck DBE
New Statesman Leadership in Turbulent Times Vice-Chair, APPG for Publishing &
Doris Kearns Goodwin Penguin Random House UK
The Glass Hotel
Emily St, John Mandel Sylvia Pankhurst
Rachel Holmes
The Rt Hon Caroline Nokes MP
Sylvia is much less known than
Anneliese Dodds MP Chair, Select Committee on Women her mother, Emmeline, and sister,
and Equalities Christabel, but she was the most
Labour Party Chair
More Than a Woman revolutionary of them all – a brave
Kleptopia
Caitlin Moran political activist, artist, writer
Tom Burgis and editor.
To give every man an insight.
A set of rollercoaster stories, all the
more astonishing (and disturbing)
because they are all true, based on The Rt Hon Boris Johnson
dogged and insightful investigative Maeve Dunne
MP
journalism by Burgis. Public Affairs & Policy Manager,
Prime Minister
Publishers Association
Scoop
Wendy Chamberlain MP Mouth Full of Blood
Evelyn Waugh
Toni Morrison
Liberal Democrat Chief Whip
Ladder of Years
Anne Tyler Quentin Letts Chris Bryant MP
Who hasn’t thought, for a moment, Chair, Select Committees on
Parliamentary Sketchwriter
what it might be like to just walk Standards and on Privileges
Pilgrims
away from their life – Tyler’s Shuggie Bain
Matthew Kneale
characters, are as always, real Douglas Stuart
and true to themselves.
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Bridget Phillipson MP Lord Rennard Flick Drummond MP
Shadow Chief Secretary to the The Anglo Saxons The God of Small Things
Treasury Marc Morris Arundhati Roy
Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart
The Rt Hon Stephen Timms Alicia Kearns MP
MP The Pillars of the Earth
Preet Kaur Gill MP Chair, Select Committee on Work Ken Follett
Shadow Secretary of State for and Pensions
International Development The Anglo-Saxons
Greg Smith MP
Siddhartha Marc Morris
Hermann Hesse The Road to Serfdom
F. A. Hayek
Nickie Aiken MP
Lord Razzall Jews Don’t Count
Still Life David Baddiel The Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP
Louise Penny A thought provoking and brave look Secretary of State for Transport
at how anti-Semitism has become The Years of Lyndon Johnson
an ignored and even accepted form Robert Caro
Daniel Conway of racism.
The best, most comprehensive and
Director of External Affairs,
most significant political biography
Publishers Association
Sally-Ann Hart MP ever written.
The Act of Living
Frank Tallis The Choice
Edith Eger
Abundantly relevant and beautifully The Rt Hon Oliver Dowden
written to boot, Tallis explores how the CBE MP
pyschotherapeutic tradition can help us
Katherine Fletcher MP Secretary of State for Digital, Culture,
live our lives. Media and Sport
The Code Book
Simon Singh Hons and Rebels
Jessica Mitford
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The Rt Hon Sir Lindsay Anonymous John Nicolson MP
Hoyle MP The Five: The Untold Lives of the SNP Spokesperson for Digital,
Speaker of the House of Commons Women Killed by Jack the Ripper Culture, Media and Sport
Hallie Rubenhold
The Prime Ministers The Testaments
Steve Richards Margaret Atwood
This book is a thoughtful analysis of The Rt Hon Dame Eleanor Winner of the Booker Prize in 2019.
For anyone who has been gripped by
leaders over the last 60 years. Richards Laing DBE MP
cites the multi-dimensional qualities the dystopian world of Gilead, this
that he thinks make for a successful Chairman, Ways and Means and will bring yet more chilling encounters
PM – from having an ability to show, Deputy Speaker from an author who so presciently
rather than tell, to being nimble, The Strike Series coined the phrase “false news”.
with a good sense of humour and Robert Galbraith
terminology voters can relate to. At
the same time, he also says they need to Fascinating, compelling and absolutely William Wragg MP
have widespread appeal and be able to absorbing. Perfect for getting lost in
whilst on holiday. Chair, Select Committee on Public
manage an often-divided party – in Administration and Constitutional
other words, quite a tall order. Affairs
Tom Tugendhat MBE MP The Way We Live Now
Baroness Thomas Anthony Trollope
Chair, Select Committee on Foreign
Affairs
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens The Unravelling
Emma Sky
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Andrew Lewer MBE MP Baroness Grender Julian Knight MP
Chair, APPG for Publishing Liberal Democrat Lords Chair, Select Committee on Digital,
Spokesperson for Housing Culture, Media and Sportditor.
The Life of Samuel Johnson
James Boswell Where the Crawdads Sing The Wolf Den
Delia Owens Elodie Harper
Reading – and re-reading – it allows
one to add an extra tome to one of A beautiful, faultless examination of
Samuel Johnson’s own declarations: the role of women in Ancient Rome
“Was there ever yet any thing written Amy Price with striking parallels for today.
by mere man that was wished longer Senior Public Affairs & Policy
by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Manager, Publishers Association
Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim’s Virginia Crosbie MP
Invisible Women
Progress?”
Caroline Criado-Perez Both of You
Adele Parks
A very readable exploration of data
Fay Jones MP bias and how it affects women and
UnPresidented
men alike. This book will undoubtedly Dame Meg Hillier DBE MP
change how you see the world.
Jon Sopel Chair, Select Committee on Public
Accounts
The Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather
Alison Thewliss MP Tessa Boase
Chancellor of the Exchequer
SNP Shadow Chancellor of
the Exchequer Twelve Yards
Ben Lyttleton
Welcome to Britain
Colin Yeo
About the Publishers Association The Publishers Association is the member organisation for UK publishing, representing companies of all sizes and specialisms. Our members produce digital and print books, research journals and educational resources across genres and subjects. The UK’s publishing sector is a leader in thought, discovery and creativity. The industry’s economic and cultural contribution is vast and the UK is rightly regarded as a publishing superpower – exporting more books than any other country in the world. Please contact Amy Price (aprice@publishers.org.uk) for more information.
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