Books by the Beach 2025

ALAN JOHNSON was a Labour MP for 20 years. He served in five cabinet positions in the Governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, including Education Secretary, Health Secretary and Home Secretary. Alan is the author of award-winning childhood memoir This Boy, and the sequels Please Mr Postman and The Long and Winding Road. He has written three highly acclaimed novels to date. This morning Alan will be chatting about his engaging biography on Harold Wilson, which recently won a prize at the Westminster Book Awards. A fascinating start to Sunday!