By September I am aiming to finish, Andrew Rawnsley's 'End of the Party' and Peter Mandelson's 'The Third Man'. This would be some feat, given that Rawnsley's opus is 700 pages and Mandelson's is around 400. But maybe it's too much and I'll overdose on new Labour. I think this is how specialist rounds in Mastermind start. Then once I have finished those two tomes I can start on 'The Journey' no, not the Miley Cyrus hit but Blair's much-anticipated justification memoir.

I would love to read something from Brown's perspective though as he demonised in 'The End of the Party' and from what I've heard, Mandelson isn't too keen on him either. In both books he is depicted as an abject monster, completely ruthless in pursuing his objectives, however misguided they were.What is particularly interesting about 'The End Of The Party' is that Brown's bad behaviour is blamed on Blair's own weakness and dependence on the Chancellor. If TB was a stronger PM, then Brown wouldn't have been able to spend Blair's premiership trying to thwart him at every turn. He would have been sacked, demoted, pushed out of the picture.