Alan Johnson, former Labour MP and postman tells us about his career and his writing.

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Alan Johnson was a Labour MP for 20 years before retiring ahead of the 2017 general election. He served in five cabinet positions in the Tony Blair and Gordon Brown Governments. Watch the former postman as he tells us about his life, is political career, his writing including his latest book One of Our Ministers is Missing.
Alan Johnson's childhood memoir This Boy was published in 2013. It won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, and the Orwell Prize, Britain's top political writing award.
His second volume of memoirs, Please Mr Postman won the National Book Club award for Best Biography. The final book in his memoir trilogy, The Long and Winding Road, won the Parliamentary Book Award for Best Memoir. Alan was a Labour MP for 20 years before retiring ahead of the 2017 general election. He served in five cabinet positions in the Governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown including Education Secretary, Health Secretary and Home Secretary. He and his wife Carolyn live in East Yorkshire.
One of Our Ministers is Missing by Alan Johnson
A government minister in the Foreign Office has vanished into thin air.
On holiday in Crete, Lord Bellingham had been solo trekking in the White Mountains when he mysteriously disappeared. After a vast search and rescue operation, the local police have no leads, save for a mobile phone discarded on a cliff edge. Assistant Commissioner Louise Mangan of the Met Police is sent to assist in the investigation but soon discovers that there are more layers to this case than the local police realise. Lady Bellingham is less than forthcoming, the family nanny is hiding something, and a scandal is brewing back in London that could destroy the minister's reputation for good. Under pressure from the powers that be, can Louise find the missing minister, or will she discover something much more sinister at play?

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Alan Johnson is a man of honesty and dignity, clawed his way out of poverty to the very top of the establishment. A humble and thoroughly decent man , his writings are inspirational….. his life is one of triumph over adversity "he’s a very special “ human being !