At the record-breaking age of 28, Piers Morgan was made editor of the News of the World, the UK's biggest-selling Sunday newspaper. The decade that followed was one of the most tumultuous in modern times; a period in which we witnessed the self-implosion of the Tories, the rise of New Labour, the Royal Family brought to its knees by scandal and tragedy, horrific news events like Dunblane, September 11, and the war in Iraq - alongside a seemingly endless supply of fantastically entertaining sport and celebrity gossip.

Throughout the period (he later moved to the Mirror, infamously deciding to take it upmarket and stood alone in making the paper anti-war) he kept detailed diaries of what happened, as it happened - recording encounters and escapades with the key figures involved, from Murdoch to Blair, Diana to the Beckhams.

Like Alan Clark and Paul Burrell before him, The Insider will give the wider reading public an unprecedented insight into the workings not only of newspapers, but the inside track on the corridors of power in Britain.

Entertaining, engaging and compulsive, The Insider blows apart every notion we have about politics, media and celebrity in twenty-first century Britain.

What the critics say...

'You couldn't wish for a more scintillating settling of bitter scores'
The Independent

'I don't think this Peter Pan will ever truly grow up, but that is part of the charm and success of the man and his diary. It's a compelling read on any level, whether you want to consider the relationship between politics and the press, royal behaviour, the red-top world - or just want a good laugh.'
Charles WilsonThe Independent

`Riotous'
Andrew MarrBBC R4

'a riveting read with splendid anecdotes on almost every page...This incestuous relationship between a prime minister and red-top editors is not how Britain used to be governed. Morgan's diaries offer as much instruction for students of government as they do students of the press'
The Times

'One of the most revealing narratives on the nature of power and the media in modern Britain...The conspiring of politicians in their own trivialisation is one of the untold stories of our times. It is time we were told - and Morgan's document is a good start'
Prospect

'an amusing, revealing and (mostly) true look at all the news that's fit to print, and some that wasn't'
The Sun

'In the vernacular of tabloid journalism, the Morgan Diaries are a right, rollicking good read'
Andrew NeilEvening Standard

'unputdownable'
Metro

'Many books have been written about the character of the Blair era, but this is the most readable and most devastating'
Saturday Telegraph

'If in years to come this book is remembered and consulted, it will be for its vivid evocation of the tawdry atmosphere of the court surrounding the present occupant of number 10'
Independent on Sunday

'a compelling read on any level, whether you want to consider the relationship between politics and the press, royal behaviour, the red-top world - or just want a good laugh'
The Independent

One of the most uproarious and indiscreet accounts of public life in recent times. In addition to a series of embarrassing revelations about Tony and Cherie, Morgan breezily records extra-ordinary details from private encounters with Gordon Brown, Peter Mandelson, Princess Diana, Prince William, Madonna, Paul McCartney and a seemingly endless cast of the rich and famous
Mary RiddellDaily Mail

An extraordinary insight into the personality of the Prime Minister
The Independent

This is a book of historical importance
Peter OborneThe Spectator

' It provides toe-curling moments aplenty'
Daily Telegraph

'Piers Morgan former editor of the Daily Mirror, is no Samuel Pepys, nor even an Alan Clark.But the diary of his relations with the court of Tony Blair...is the best account we have so far of what life has really been like in No10 for the past eight years... I do, on the whole, trust this amazing account.In the first place, his depiction of the three main characters - Mr Blair, Cherie Blair and Alastair Campbell - is consistent with what we already know of them.And, in the second place, it all hangs together.We see these people in moods of rage, self-pity and treachery, and in the round each of them is all too credible.'
Stephen GloverDaily Mail

Destined to be a sensation
Independent

Funny and fabulously indiscreet, this is a book that holds up a mirror to the spinning and posturing of our celebrity age... scurrilously entertaining
Observer

Hundreds of wonderful tales, some funny, some profound, some just fascinating
Book of the Week, Greg DykeGuardian

'An irresistible read, whether you love him or hate him, are friend or foe, or wouldn't touch the Mirror with decontaminated tweezers. And there is enough arrogant boasting, self-immolation and sweet boyish charm to convert you from one category to another and back again.'
Charles WilsonThe Independent

'opinionated, gossipy - utterly compulsive'
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