Books by Andrew Gimson

A brilliant new biography of Boris Johnson from his best biographer, Andrew Gimson

Andrew Gimson is the author of Boris: The Rise of Boris Johnson, published by Simon & Schuster in 2006 and described as ¿brilliant¿, ¿scintillating¿ and ¿an effervescent delight¿. He writes for a wide range of newspapers and magazines, and is a contributing editor to ConservativeHome.com. He lives in London.

The definitive word on Boris Johnson, the UK's most colourful politician who led the country to Brexit but missed out on becoming PM

Taking the reader through the lives of our monarchs, this book tells a tale of bastardy, courage, conquest, brutality, vanity, vulgarity, corruption, anarchy, absenteeism, piety, nobility, divorce, execution, civil war, madness, magnificence, profligacy, frugality, philately, abdication, dutifulness, family breakdown and family recovery.