Books By Edward Pearce - Author

A member of the Oxford Union in his days as an undergraduate at Oxford, in the years since Edward Pearce has had a long and distinguished career as a Parliamentary sketch writer for the Daily Telegraph and the New Statesman and as a columnist for the Guardian and the Scotsman, with intermittent appearances as a theatre critic throughout. He is the author of many books on politics and current affairs, including Looking Down on Mrs Thatcher (1987), The Quiet Rise of John Major (1991), and a biography of Denis Healey (2002). Over the last decade, he has increasingly turned to history writing, with biographies of Sir Robert Walpole and Pitt the Elder and, most recently, Reform!: The Fight for the 1832 Reform Act (2010).