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Edwina is now a well-known author. Her ten books include four non-fiction: "Life Lines", published in 1989, on her time as Health Minister; "What Women Want" (1990), essays on women's role; "Three Line Quips" (1992), wit from the House of Commons, and in October 2002, "Diaries 1987-92" which gives a unique insider's view of life in Westminster during the Thatcher and early Major years. |
Praise
for "Diaries 1987-1992"
"Take a deep breath.. it's well worth reading. ..It contains much
to stimulate and enlighten, while its author comes across as a more
complex, likeable and fragile individual than her early public image
or recent press indicate. .. there is a tender, passionate woman
inside.. This important book is not ladylike, but it is most definitely
accomplished, and deserves a wide readership."
Christopher Silvester, SundayTimes October 13 2002
Review:
"Diaries 1997-92"
The Sunday Times October 13 2002
"Big
blue underpants will go down in history"
By Anne Robinson
The Daily Telegraph - October 4 2002
Her first novel, "A Parliamentary Affair"
(1994), went to Number 1 in the best-seller lists, has sold over
250,000 copies in English and has been translated into German, Italian,
Polish and Russian. This was the first time a novel by a new British writer hit no 1. The book has sold over a quarter of a million copies.
Her second, "A Woman's Place" (1996) and third,
"She's Leaving Home" September 1997, set in her
native Liverpool, were also best-sellers.
Edwina
Currie at The Harrods booksigning for "She's
Leaving Home"
Harrods booksigning
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The fourth, "The Ambassador", a tongue-in-cheek
look at the world in the near future, was published in hardback
February 1999 and paperback June 2000.
Sunday Times Review of The Ambassador
6 August 2000
The next... "Chasing Men", came out in February 2000
and was in the best-seller list for five weeks.
The sixth novel is "This Honourable
House" (Little, Brown, June 2001) set in Parliament. Sex,
scandal and spin: the mixture as before.. Paperback published by
Time Warner paperbacks July 2003
Edwina was a Whitbread Prize judge in 1998 and an Orange Prize reviewer in 2001. She has authored many articles, short stories and book reviews in the national press, magazines and online. Both she and her husband are regular guest lecturers on cruise ships. She has also been a guest lecturer at numerous literary festivals including Cheltenham, Dartington, the Daphne du Maurier festival in Fowey, Cornwall, Jewish Book Week, and the Hay-on-Wye Book Festival.
Her books are borrowed over 100,000 times a year from British libraries. She is currently working on her next book.
Edwina is a member of the prestigious Society of Authors, and served on its Broadcasting Committee for four years 2003-2007.
Recent articles and reviews written by Edwina Currie . . .
"Puncturing Egos since 1961" - Review of "Private Eye: The First 50 Years", 11 September 2011
"Behind the Black Door" - Review by Edwina Currie for the Financial Times, 5 March 2011
"In Good Spirits" - The Caravan Club Magazine, February 2011
"What the Tories are Reading" – The Times - 14 April 2010
"Alan Clark: The Biography by Ion Trewin" – The Times Online - September 18, 2009“Women in Politics” – Daily Express - 16th June 2009
“Equality is fine, but this absurd bill will be a disaster for women and Britain” – Daily Mail - 29th April 2009
“Margaret Thatcher’s Revolution - Thirty Years On” – Daily Telegraph - 26th April 2009
“Yes, of course Lembit Opik is irresistible to women! Let me tell you why” – Daily Mail - 30th July 2009
“Harriet Harman's rabid nonsense that has no regard for real needs” – The Times - 3rd August 2009
“Edwina and a camper van” – Daily Mail - 8th July 2008
“Mrs T the Temptress” – Daily Mail - 6th June 2008
”I Love Liverpool: Scousers and Home Truths” – Daily Mail - 14th August 2008
“Notches on the Bedpost” – Observer 6th April 2008
“Fame and Fortune” (interview) - Daily Telegraph - 19th April 2008