The following is a list of autobiographies written by Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom. The i calls political memoir a genre that can be "illuminating, funny and surprising".[1]
Autobiographies covering the period of their premiership
editTitle | Prime Minister | Publisher | Date | ISBN |
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As It Happened | Clement Atlee | 1954 | ||
Time and Chance | James Callaghan | Collins | 1987 | ISBN 978-0-00-216515-0 |
The Downing Street Years | Margaret Thatcher | HarperCollins | 1993 | ISBN 978-0-00-745663-5 |
The Course of My Life | Edward Heath | Hodder & Stoughton | 1998 | ISBN 978-0-34-070852-1 |
John Major: The Autobiography | John Major | HarperCollins | 1999 | ISBN 978-0-00-257004-6 |
A Journey | Tony Blair | Random House | 2010 | ISBN 978-0-09-952509-7 |
My Life, Our Times | Gordon Brown | The Bodley Head | 2017 | ISBN 978-1-78-470746-0 |
For the Record | David Cameron | William Collins | 2019 | ISBN 978-0-00-823928-2 |
Ten Years to Save the West | Liz Truss | Biteback Publishing (United Kingdom) Regnery Publishing (United States) |
2024 | ISBN 978-1-78-590857-6 |
Unleashed | Boris Johnson | William Collins | 2024 | ISBN 978-0-00-861820-9 |
Autobiographies not covering the period of their premiership
editTitle | Prime Minister | Publisher | Date | ISBN |
---|---|---|---|---|
My Early Life | Winston Churchill | Thornton Butterworth | 1930 | ISBN 978-0-907871-62-0 |
War Memoirs of David Lloyd George | David Lloyd George | 1933–1937 | ||
Memoirs: The Making of a Prime Minister 1916–1964 | Harold Wilson | Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Michael Joseph | 1986 | ISBN 978-0-71-812775-6 |
The Path to Power | Margaret Thatcher | HarperCollins | 1995 | ISBN 978-0-00-255050-5 |
Friends, Voters, Countrymen | Boris Johnson | HarperCollins | 2002 | ISBN 978-0-00-711914-1 |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Balls, Katy (13 September 2019). "From left to right, must-read political memoirs from across the spectrum". i. Retrieved 12 March 2020.