Parliamentary Book Awards 2021 Winners Announced at Houses of Parliament Ceremony

By LoveReading | 9th March 2022

This evening the winners of the 2021 Parliamentary Book Awards were announced at an event in the Houses of Parliament hosted by Matt Chorley.

The Parliamentary Book Awards were launched by the Booksellers Association and the Publishers Association in 2016 to champion the best of political writing and recognise the important link between politics and the book world.

The awards celebrate parliamentary writing across three categories and this year's winners are:

Best Biography, Memoir, or Autobiography by a Parliamentarian and the winner this year was Beyond A Fringe 2021: Tales from Reformed Establishment Lackey by Andrew Mitchell

Best Non-Biographical Book by a Parliamentarian, and the winner this year was Greater: Britain After the Storm by Penny Mordaunt and Chris Lewis

Best Political Book by a non-Parliamentarian, awarded to Value(s):The must-read book on how to fix our politics, economics and values by Mark Carney

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 category.

The full Parliamentary Book Awards 2021 shortlist was:

Best Biography, Memoir or Autobiography by a Parliamentarian

* Spider Woman: A Life by Lady Hale

* Appetite: A Memoir in Recipes of Family and Food by Ed Balls

* Beyond A Fringe 2021: Tales from Reformed Establishment Lackey by Andrew Mitchell

* In the Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister by Alan Duncan

Best Non-Biographical Book by a Parliamentarian

* Seven Ways to Change the World by Gordon Brown

* Everything You Need to Know About Politics: My Life as an MP by Jess Phillips

* Hard Choices: What Britain Does Next by Peter Ricketts

* Greater: Britain After the Storm by Penny Mordaunt and Chris Lewis

Best Political Book by a Non-Parliamentarian