Occupational Hazards

Beautifully written, highly evocative … a joy to read. – John Simpson, journalist and author of We Chose to Speak of War and StrifeA marvellous book … a devastating narrative. – Simon Jenkins, author of A Short History of EnglandAbsolutely absorbing. – Ken LoachStrikes gut and brain at once. – James Meek, author of The People’s Act of LoveWonderfully observed, wise, evocative. * Observer *The best book by far to come out of the Iraq mess. * Sunday Herald *

Rory Stewart served in the UK Cabinet as Secretary of State for International Development, and before that as Prisons Minister, Minister for Africa, Minister for Development, Environment Minister and Chair of the Defence Committee. He ran against Boris Johnson for the leadership of the Conservative Party in 2019. Earlier in his career he was briefly in the British Army, before serving as a diplomat in Indonesia, the Balkans and Iraq, establishing and running a charity in Afghanistan, and holding a chair at Harvard University. His other books include Occupational Hazards, The Marches and Politics on the Edge, which was an instant Sunday Times bestseller. Stewart is now the president of the non-profit organization GiveDirectly, a visiting fellow at Yale’s Jackson School and the co-host, with Alastair Campbell, of the UK’s leading podcast The Rest is Politics.