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THE TWO KEY BOOKS ARE NOW IN PRINT IN PAPERBACK, BOTH PUBLISHED BY PHOENIX, part of the Orion Group

ALAN CLARK: THE BIOGRAPHY and a new one-volume edition of Clark’s celebrated diaries, originally published in three volumes

Originally in three volumes, Alan Clark’s diaries have now been edited by Ion Trewin into one volume covering the full extent of the published books from 1972, when he, his wife Jane and his sons James and Andrew moved into Saltwood Castle and Alan was selected as the Conservative candidate for the first time, until his death in 1999 from cancer.

‘ The most compelling account of modern politics I have ever read’, wrote

Robert Harris, on the original volume

‘Staggeringly, recklessly candid…’ judged Anthony Howard

‘I think he would do well in politics if he weren’t – my profound conviction   – a fascist’ Kenneth Clark on his 16-year-old son

‘No-one checked Alan exc