We’ve been about this weekend, really we have. Splashed across the papers at every whiff and woo we’re pretty much full on celebrities. How? We’ve had two reviews in The Sunday Times this weekend, and two in The Observer.
Here's John Podmore’s Out of Sight, Out of Mind in The Observer:
‘Part engaging memoir, part history of how we have got to this point, but always written with humour, pace and well-turned sentences, Out of Sight, Out of Mind not only pinpoints the problems, it offers solutions'.
Here's Peter Hain's Outside In in The Observer:
‘I would rather parliament had more of his like, even the muted firebrand, than the new generation cloned from thinktanks and party work.
Peter Hain has lived life to the full, which is more than most of our politicians can say'.
And here he is again in The Sunday Times (£):
‘Those inclined to feel that the soft-left is soft-headed will not be converted by Hain’s account of his life, but they might come to understand better the journey of the 1968 generation and its en-counters with the tougher choices of realpolitik'.
And to top it off, Peter Carroll’s Gurkha in The Sunday Times (£):
‘You don’t expect to see Joanna Lumley on the front of a book produced by a publishing house exclusively devoted to politics. But then it can never have happened before that a working actress had managed to bend the House of Commons — and the prime minister — to her will. This was Lumley’s achievement in 2009, as the galvanising figurehead of a campaign to grant retired Nepalese Gurkhas absolute rights to settle in this country'.
So there you have it. Enjoy!