The memoirs of 25 years of political activism, albeit mostly unsuccessful! Mark Steel has dedicated his life to eradicating injustice. For his efforts he has been wrongfully arrested during the Brixton riots; been called a poof for denouncing sexist attitudes; and has run in a GLA election.

In eighteenth-century London the spectacle of a hanging was not simply a form of punishing transgressors. Rather it evidently served the more sinister purpose - for a privileged ruling class - of forcing the poor population of London to accept the criminalization of customary rights and new forms of private property.

For his many friends and fans, Peter Cook was quite simply the funniest man they'd ever encountered. And nearly eight years since his death, his status as one of Britain's greatest comedians shows no sign of shrinking. This collection ranges from Cook's first writing to transcripts of his late, great TV appearances.

John Sergeant is ITN's Political Editor and previously had a long career at the BBC. This memoir takes the reader from his rather curious childhood through his flirtation with show business as part of the 60s satire boom to his early years on the Liverpool Post and subsequent 30 years at the BBC.

John Major's rise through Parliament was meteoric. That is, until within months of the 1992 election, when his government was in troubled waters. In this text, John Major is honest about what he won and lost, and about friends and foes within his own party as well as outside.

This first volume of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs encompasses the whole of her time as Prime Minister - the formation of her goals in the early 1980s, the Falklands, the General Election victories of 1983 and 1987 and, eventually, the circumstances of her fall from political power.