New Releases by BEN PIMLOTT

Reissued with a new foreword to mark the centenary of Harold Wilson’s birth, Ben Pimlott''s classic biography combines scholarship and observation to illuminate the life and career of one of Britain''s most controversial post-war statesmen.

An updated edition of Ben Pimlott’s classic biography of the Queen: ‘There is no better biography of Elizabeth II.’ PETER HENNESSY, Independent on Sunday

A fully revised edition of Ben Pimlott''s classic biography of the Queen: "There will be no better biography of Elizabeth II." PETER HENNESSY, Independent on Sunday

A fully revised edition of Ben Pimlott''s classic biography of the Queen: "There will be no better biography of Elizabeth II." PETER HENNESSY, Independent on Sunday

This timely book is the first to take a close historical look at Ken Livingstone s London. It examines the development of London governance from the demise of the Greater London Council to the establishment of the Greater London Authority. The authors investigate the working of Mayor and Assembly, unravel the underlying politics of London and explore policy debates about transport, crime, and economic development. Finally they pose a question of key importance, not just to Londoners, but also to those interested in urban governance throughout the world: to what extent can the creation of new institutions and instruments of government give a major city the sense of being a political community?

For the first time, Ben Pimlott (''the best writer of political biography new writing'', Andrew Marr, Independent) treats the Queen seriously as the subject of historical biography.

Hugh Dalton was one of the most effective and strangest of modern political leaders. Born the son of a tutor to royal princes, Dalton was educated at Eton and King''s College, Cambridge, where he was taught by Maynard Keynes, fell under the spell of Rupert Brooke, and learned about socialism from Keir Hardie and Beatrice Webb. He entered Parliament in 1924, and for three decades his impact on government policy and on the leadership, organization and philosophy of the Labour party was immense. In this biography, Pimlott makes use of official records, interviews, private papers and the hitherto unpublished Dalton diaries.

Collection of essays and newspaper articles originally published 1981-1993.

The 1930s was the ''Red Decade'' of literary imagination. Yet there has seldom been a time when the influence of the British Left has been at a lower ebb.