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The Parliamentary Book Awards in 2024

The Parliamentary Book Awards were launched by the Booksellers Association and the Publishers Association in 2016 to champion the best of political writing and to recognise the important link between politics and the book world. Each year, publishers are invited to nominate titles and authors for the Awards, with booksellers selecting the shortlists, and parliamentarians vote for the winner in each of the three categories:
- Best Non-Fiction by a Parliamentarian
- Best Memoir / Autobiography by a Parliamentarian, and
- Best Political Book by a Non-Parliamentarian
The 2023 winners were announced on 6 February 2024.

Planes, Trains and Toilet Doors: 50 Places That Changed British Politics
Matt Chorley
£25.00 £23.75Best Political Book by a Non-Parliamentarian - WINNER

But What Can I Do?: Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It
Alastair Campbell
£10.99 £10.44Best Political Book by a Non-Parliamentarian - Shortlisted

Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History
Philippa Gregory
£25.00 £23.75Best Political Book by a Non-Parliamentarian - Shortlisted

Bust?: Saving the Economy, Democracy and Our Sanity
Robert Peston
£25.00 £23.75Best Political Book by a Non-Parliamentarian - Shortlisted

An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals
Polly Toynbee
£22.00 £20.90Best Political Book by a Non-Parliamentarian - Shortlisted

Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival
Daniel Finkelstein
£25.00 £23.75Best Memoir / Autobiography by a Parliamentarian - WINNER

A Purposeful Life: What I’ve Learned About Breaking Barriers and Inspiring Change
Dawn Butler
£18.99 £18.04Best Memoir / Autobiography by a Parliamentarian - Shortlisted

One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up: A Memoir of Growing Up and Getting On
Wes Streeting
£20.00 £19.00Best Memoir / Autobiography by a Parliamentarian - Shortlisted

The Winding Stair
Jesse Norman
£20.00 £19.00Best Non-Fiction / Fiction by a Parliamentarian - WINNER

Politics On the Edge
Rory Stewart
£22.00Best Non-Fiction / Fiction by a Parliamentarian - Shortlisted