Many insider accounts have already appeared of the events retold in David Laws’s book 22 Days in May: The Birth of the Lib Dem-Conservative Coalition. It is therefore one of the book’s strengths that not only is it written in a lively style which gives some freshness to the now familiar sequence of events but

A noteworthy snippet in Andrew Pierce's column this morning: "[David Laws] is hard at work on a book. The title - 22 Days In May - is hardly likely to set pulses racing, but the book will be the first insider account of the negotiations which led to the coalition. Laws is also planning to cover the early days of the Government - days which, of course, include his downfall." Not that...

Not even in the stores yet, but already at the top of the charts at both Amazon and Barnes and Nobel 48 days out from its actual release date of November 14th. It's apparently the only non-fiction book ever to accomplish such a feat in pre-order. And her publisher is already gearing up for Way Huge Mega Sales: Two days after the release date of Sarah Palin’s book was announced, it'...

Conservative MP Rob Wilson’s book on the formation of a coalition government in May 2010, 5 Days to Power: The Journey to Coalition Britain, plays up the drama of the events, talking of how “Gordon Brown and David Cameron were both determined to do whatever was necessary to secure the position of Prime Minister” as

I've been busy on the book tour -- or recovering from the book tour! -- so I haven't had a chance to bring to your attention all of the exciting mentions Shakedown has received in the press lately. Here are some from the past few days: Maclean's The great Andrew Coyne reviewed the book for Maclean's, Canada's largest news magazine, which also excerpted the case in the book...

Yesterday I interviewed David Laws, on the day his book 22 Days in May was published. I asked him about the book, his views on the Coalition Government, as well as about the focus of his current work, plus his thoughts on the Ireland bailout. In the introduction to the book, David Laws writes that

BOOK launches are ubiquitous these days, but last week witnessed one that had a claim to be distinctive. Fidel Castro unveiled to the faithful in Cuba his autobiographical mem

Richard Seymour should certainly be congratulated at his spirit of entrepreneurship in rushing out a book on David Cameron so promptly. However the problems with this book are not those of haste, but of a completely inadequate political framework that Richard has constructed over several years. Those of you who like Richard’s blog, Lenin’s Tomb, will

Tomorrow sees the publication of Cameron on Cameron; a book edited by David Cameron and GQ's Dylan Jones. The Telegraph's Rosa Prince has been reading through her advance copy and gives us this nugget from David Cameron: "I was on...

David Cameron was on punchy form at PMQs today. He jibed that in Harriet Harman’s case the Budget Red Book should be called ‘the un-Red book’ and called Labour backbenchers ‘dunces’ who didn’t know what the last government was planning. The Cameron Harman exchange was interesting. Harman had come armed with some classic follow-up questions using the details in t...