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Alan Clark's acclaimed Diaries end a month before his death in 1999. After the first volume (30 weeks on the SUNDAY TIMES bestseller list), THE TIMES wrote: 'The best diarists, from Pepys and Boswell, to 'Chips' Channon and Harold Nicolson, have been the souls of indiscretion. But none so indiscreet as Mr Clark. For its Pooterish self-assessment, for Mr Toad's enthusiasm for new things, for Byron's caddishness, for its deadly candour, it is one of the great works in the genre.' This third volume begins in 1991 with Alan Clark contemplating quitting as MP. Life at Saltwood Castle, his home in Kent, hangs heavy; then comes the Scott inquiry and the Matrix Churchill affair, the publishing of the first volume of the Diaries, which leads 'the coven', a family of former girlfriends, to sell their story to the NEWS OF THE WORLD. The diaries follow his ongoing efforts to return to Westminster. As ever there is much, much more: his long-suffering wife Jane, his family, an affair that threatens his marriage, and, not least, the country life.This volume closes with the tragedy of his final months when he is diagnosed with a brain tumour, but he keeps his diary until he can no longer focus on the page.
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Alan Clark, Tory MP for Sutton (Plymouth) 1974-92; for Kensington & Chelsea, 1997-99. Minister in Thatcher and Major governments, 1983-92. Historian (debut with THE DONKEYS). Married with two sons; lived at Saltwood Castle, Kent. Ion Trewin, the editor, is a former literary editor of The Times. He is now editor in chief of a leading London publisher. He edited Alan Clark's DIARIES: INTO POLITICS Ion Trewin is a London publisher. Originally a journalist, he was Literary Editor of The Times 1972-79. He was Alan Clark's publisher from 1992 until his death, and has since edited two further volumes of Alan Clark's diaries. Married with a son and daughter, he has since 2006 been administrator of the Man Booker prizes. He was chairman of the Cheltenham Literature Festival 1996-2007.
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With 'TC', a tame jackdaw, and Hannah, one of the Clarks' two rottweiler
sisters, in the Green Room. Paperwork was often out of control, as in April
1994: '... absurdly laden, now, with the various trays. Behind me several Pisa
towers of sundry newsprint, car-sale catalogues, important incoming letters
interleaved (I don't doubt) and every kind of unexpected document I've beside
my chair and on the bookcase.'
'With his Diaries, he has written himself into the life of our times with a panache and candour that ranks him next to Boswell or Pepys'
The Times
'The only question now is whether Clark is the greatest English diarist of the twentieth century or merely one of the top five'
Lynn Barber, Daily Telegraph
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Alan Clark's last diaries? Sad, but true. After the universal delight that greeted the original volume about life in successive Margaret Thatcher governments ('The most compelling account of modern politics I have ever read,' wrote Robert Harris) came a second effervescent dose that began with his entry into politics ('Pure joy', cheered Lynn Barber).
The Last Diaries will not disappoint. Opening as Clark, newly inducted into the Privy Council in the spring of 1991, contemplates his future, they end shortly before his untimely death in 1999.
What a decade it proves to be! Convinced that the Tories will lose the 1992 General Election, Clark quits the Commons after close on two decades. It is a decision he quickly rues. His expectation that he would simply carry on - as a Tory peer - is cruelly unfulfilled. Even the consolation of a 'resignation knighthood' is denied him.
Yet he is rarely out of the news. The publication of the first volume of his Diaries gives him praise, celebrity and notoriety. His political past catches up with him in the Matrix Churchill trial where Clark utters the memorable phrase, 'economical with the actualité'. And as John Major's government lurches from disaster to disaster Clark chases a Tory nomination that will return him to the House that he misses so much.
His personal life is complicated. Will his departure from Parliament spell the end to a long-running affair? What of 'the coven', a mother and two daughters with whom he had been involved, whose reappearance puts him on to tabloid front pages and leads to the press laying siege to his home at Saltwood Castle?
And then there is his wife Jane, 'darling Jane', and their two sons. The last decade may have its ups and downs, but when after years of intermittent hypochondria serious ill health strikes it is his family that counts. And this volume closes with Jane Clark's own diary, the moving record of the last weeks of her husband's life.
The Last Diaries are a memorable finale - in the words of The Times - to 'one of the great works of the genre.'
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