The Abuse of Power: Confronting Injustice in Public Life by Theresa May review – blind to her own failings

The ex-PM casts herself as nobly championing victims of the powerful, but fails to properly confront her culpability in the shameful Windrush scandal

Nadine Dorries’ book on Boris Johnson’s downfall delayed due to legal issues

Ex-MP claims her account will lay bare ‘a corruption of democracy deep at the heart of the Conservative party and in Downing Street’

‘The UK’s importing of food is a travesty’: farmer’s wife Helen Rebanks tells her own story

Rebanks, wife of bestselling The Shepherd’s Life author James, publishes her debut book this week and gives short shrift to Britain’s farms policy

Backbone of the Nation by Robert Gildea review – the final throes of industrial Britain

Nearly 40 years after the miners’ strike, this history based on the oral testimonies of 100 miners and their families should serve as a warning for future generations

A Purposeful Life by Dawn Butler review – hard truths and irrepressible energy

The Labour MP tells her rich personal and political story with galvanising confidence – and candour about the treatment of powerful black women

Code of Conduct by Chris Bryant review – a parliamentary pedant’s plan for fixing Britain’s politics

The Labour chair of the standards committee can rub people up the wrong way with his pomposity, but his manifesto for restoring decency to parliament is nothing if not reasonable

Nicola Sturgeon’s ‘deeply personal and revealing’ autobiography to be published in 2025

Pan Macmillan will publish the former first minister’s as-yet-untitled memoir

Code of Conduct by Chris Bryant review – a manifesto for a better politics

The chair of the standards committee tackles bullying, corruption and constitutional reform

I have been sexually assaulted by five MPs, says Labour’s Chris Bryant

Standards committee chair says in new book he has been groped by fellow MPs on several occasions

The big idea: is it too late to stop extremism taking over politics?

Bizarre conspiracy thinking has infiltrated the mainstream in many western democracies. How can we push back?

Big Caesars and Little Caesars by Ferdinand Mount review – a wonderfully wry field guide to autocrats

With tremendous wit and wisdom, the former head of Margaret Thatcher’s policy unit identifies the qualities particular to dictators – and warns against consigning such people to history

Twitter rips into Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘pretentious’ poetry – except it’s actually by Shelley

The former Labour leader posted the famous ‘Rise like lions’ verse to promote his poetry anthology – but Twitter users thought it was his own, and weren’t impressed

One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up by Wes Streeting review – memoir by a man on the move

The shadow health secretary’s way with a cliche doesn’t much hinder his compelling story of overcoming adversity – and bankrobbing relatives

Behold Waterstones Dad – and hurrah for Britain’s new demographic stereotype

The latest slicing of social segments is a floating voter and a welcome addition to the merry-go-round of political life, writes Andrew Anthony

‘I have overwhelming impostor syndrome’: TV judge Rob Rinder on empathy, shame and survival

He grew up gay in a working-class community, before becoming a criminal barrister, then moving into television. Now he has written his first novel