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or download the Times Radio app. That's Politics Without the Boring Bits, weekdays from 10. So it was off to the Parliamentary Book Awards last night hosted and run by the

Book Sellers Association and the Publishers Association. I was hosting it again

for the fourth year I think we did the first time during

COVID did it on the radio. Now doing it in person it's a lovely evening it's a

lovely evening mixing independent bookshop owners who the loveliest people in the world publishers of

political books who are the most optimistic people in the world and MPs who can

read or at least look at the night's, look at the nice pictures. Speaking of which, nice pictures in my book,

Plains, trains and toilet doors, which was nominated. We'll come to that a minute.

Previous winners of these prizes include Farelle Benjamin, Penny Mordent, and Andrew Mitchell. So if this year's winners play their cards right, this time next year they could be a

children's TV presenter carrying a sword or making David Cameron's tea.

So basically what happens the publishers entered them in for the awards.

They're then shortlisted by the independent bookshops.

And that is voted on by MPs and peers.

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