Writing Career

All Edwina’s novels are available as ebooks

And - both sets of Diaries: 1987-1992, published 2002, and 1992-1997, published in September 2012.

Edwina is now a well-known author. Her eleven books include five 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; "Diaries 1987-92" published 2002 and “Diaries II 1992-1997” (2012) which give a unique insider's view of life in Westminster during the year of Prime Ministers Thatcher and Major.

Praise for "Diaries 1987-1992"

"The two volumes are the best account I know of the experience of being a woman in British politics: it's the personal dimension as much as the political that makes them such a valuable record. In fifty years' time, students will be reading them and (one hopes) shaking their heads in bewilderment at such a strange world".
Alwyn W Turner

"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, Sunday Times 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

E-Books

All Edwina's novels are available as ebooks

A Parliamentary Affair	A Woman's Place	The Ambassador

This Honourable House	She's Leaving Home	Chasing Men

Writing Experience

Edwina was a Whitbread Prize judge in 1998 and an Orange Prize reviewer in 2001. In 2013 and 2014 she is on the judging panel for the Paddy Power Political Book of the Year Awards www.politicalbookawards.com. She has appeared at numerous literary festivals including Cheltenham, Dartington, Daphne du Maurier (Fowey), Jewish Book Week, Hay-on-Wye, Hexham, Words by the Water in Keswick.

She has authored many articles, short stories and book reviews in the national press, magazines and online. For a selection, see below.

Both she and her husband John Jones are regular guest lecturers on cruise ships - one happy passenger comments - click here

Edwina is a member of the prestigious Society of Authors, and served on its Broadcasting Committee for four years 2003-2007. She now helps to run a creative writing group, The Pen Club, in the Derbyshire village where she lives.