{"product_id":"9781526680914","title":"A Life and a Half : The Unexpected Making of a Politician","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Bryant, Chris \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 14\/08\/2025,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 336 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781526680914,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story of one man's unorthodox path to politics, from Labour Minister and Sunday Times-bestselling author Chris Bryant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore he was a politician, Chris Bryant was an Anglican priest, baptising babies and holding the hands of the dying. Before that, he manned the barricades in Latin America, and before that, he was the scared son of an alcoholic mother and an estranged father.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a no-holds-barred account of a Minister’s truly unconventional life before politics – one that has left Bryant equally at home behind the altar, in sweaty gay night clubs, on the hustings or the stage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Life and a Half tells a story of bishops and actors, drag queens and pushy candidates, stuffed with moments of joy and hilarity and sorrow and abuse. All while tracking the landscape of late-twentieth-century British politics, from Thatcher to the birth of New Labour. It is a politician’s memoir like no other.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55421495607669,"sku":"9781526680914","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781526680914.jpg?v=1748334475","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.pro\/products\/9781526680914","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}