Turning Points

An engaging canter through postwar Britain . . . shaped by a lifetime of reading -- <i>Prospect</i> A wonderful book to savour. Only Richards can take you on a journey that flies so gracefully above the hurly-burly of politics and explain what’s actually going on -- Isabel Hardman, author of <i>Why We Get the Wrong Politicians</i> A pure pleasure to read. Richards is the ideal companion for anyone wishing to taste, feel and understand the ebbs and flows of the British experience since the end of the Second World War. The key characters live and breathe in his pages -- Peter Hennessy, historian and author of <i>A Duty of Care</i> A masterly account. Insightful, thoughtful and above all full of empathy, Turning Points is a work of understanding as well as scholarship -- Gavin Esler, journalist and author of <i>How Britain Ends</i> So many turning points, so little real turning. Through wonderful vignettes, Richards offers a masterful, clear-eyed and, above all, entertaining history of British politics. To pilot a better future, we need to learn how not to repeat the mistakes of the past. The book is a lesson in just that -- Will Hutton, <i>Observer</i> columnist Steve Richards is one of the shrewdest political commentators we have -- Andrew Marr, author of <i>The Making of Modern Britain</i>