Alan Johnson’s first volume of memoirs, This Boy, is still in the bestsellers’ list, but the Stakhanovite postman has made a second delivery, timed impeccably for the party conference season. It charts his escape from the urban jungle of Notting Hill to Britwell council estate in Slough, via a succession of GPO sorting offices and eventually to high office in the Union of Communications Workers.
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Available from the Spectator Bookshop, £14.99, Tel: 08430 600033. Paul Routledge is a columnist for the Daily Mirror and a biographer of Gordon Brown and Arthur Scargill.
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