Given just how many (very good) politics books have been published this year, it's pretty thrilling to see How Westminster Works figuring so prominently in books-of-the-year lists www.waterstones.com/blog/the-bes... - ThreadSky

iandunt.bsky.social • 463 days ago

Given just how many (very good) politics books have been published this year, it's pretty thrilling to see How Westminster Works figuring so prominently in books-of-the-year lists https://www.waterstones.com/blog/the-best-books-of-2023-politics?utm_source=wsbestofpolitics221123&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=roundup&utm_content=TopBanner

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leakysue.bsky.social•463 days ago

I'm working my own political book - Braverman's Britain; it's about how I'm reshaping the nation in my own image, a celebration of 👊 down, victimising the downtrodden and a paean to performative cruelty.
The perfect Christmas 🎁.

aceedodomingo.bsky.social•463 days ago

This looks grreat Ian. Are there any plans for a paperback version?

kitb.bsky.social•463 days ago

Can heartily recommend it as an insight into what's wrong with Westminster, and how some of these defects might be solved.

iandunt.bsky.social•463 days ago

Oh of course - out next year

barculator.bsky.social•463 days ago

But Ian's royalties are higher on a hardback so give a struggling author a break.

c.f. all my hardback editions.

aceedodomingo.bsky.social•463 days ago

Great. My reading list is pretty full for a while anyway. I'll keep an eye out for it.

tomnicholls.bsky.social•463 days ago

Well-deserved!

samdeane.bsky.social•463 days ago

Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart have been bigging you up too. Given their pedigree, quite the compliment it seems

thedicemechanic.bsky.social•463 days ago

It's a brilliant read, I've recommended it to all my colleagues, and I HATED it.

Well, up until the last two chapters, when you gave us a little bit of hope that something positive can be salvaged from this broken, nonsensical system we're lumbered with 😉

iandunt.bsky.social•463 days ago

And while we're on the subject of books-of-the-year, here are my top 5...

iandunt.bsky.social•463 days ago

Bitch by Lucy Cooke

Beasts of England by Adam Biles

The Lion and the Eagle by Garth Ennis &
PJ Holden

Free and Equal by Dan Chandler

Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Full breakdown and gushing praise here https://www.waterstones.com/blog/ian-dunts-favourite-reads-of-2023

menalippe.bsky.social•459 days ago

LOVED Bitch.

marcelprout.bsky.social•463 days ago

make sure to also read City of Last Chances by @aptshadow.bsky.social!

zwobble.bsky.social•463 days ago

My favourite @aptshadow.bsky.social book I read this year was Dogs of War. It made me almost made me cry (on a public train!) at things I did not ever expect to cry at.

I don't think any other piece of fiction has caused just two words to be so emotionally loaded.

hypereutectoid.bsky.social•463 days ago

I adored it <3

hws.bsky.social•463 days ago

Rex is such a good dog...

Have you read the sequel, Bear Head? Also awesome.

zwobble.bsky.social•461 days ago

Not yet, but I definitely plan to.

ianwilliams.bsky.social•463 days ago

Read it about 5 years ago and was blown away by it

aptshadow.bsky.social•463 days ago

Thanks!

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