'The secrets the stars didn't want you to read'
Daily Mail

'Among the year's non-fiction highlights… The Insider, the memoir of former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan.'
Arts Telegraph - Books to Read

'Piers Morgan former editor of the Daily Mirror, is no Samuel Pepys, nor even an Alan Clark. But the diary of his relations with the court of Tony Blair…is the best account we have so far of what life has really been like in No10 for the past eight years… I do, on the whole, trust this amazing account. In the first place, his depiction of the three main characters - Mr Blair, Cherie Blair and Alastair Campbell - is consistent with what we already know of them. And, in the second place, it all hangs together. We see these people in moods of rage, self-pity and treachery, and in the round each of them is all too credible.'
Stephen Glover - Daily Mail

' It provides toe-curling moments aplenty.'
Daily Telegraph

'Morgan shows himself to be an ill-mannered, thin-skinned, easily-flattered narcisstic ignoramus given to stupid jokes, banal observations, casual rudeness and hypocritical pieties.'
David Aaronovitch, Guardian.

'Piers Morgan's ghastly diaries will be the epitaph of this government'
Peter Oborne The Spectator

'This is a book of historic importance'
The Spectator

'scurrilously entertaining ... 'Funny and fabulously indiscreet, this is a book that holds up a mirror to the spinning and posturing of our celebrity age..'
The Observer

'Riotous'
Andrew Marr - Start the Week BBC R4

'One of the most uproarious and indiscreet accounts of public life in recent times. In addition to a series of embarrassing revelations about Tony and Cherie, Morgan breezily records extra-ordinary details from private encounters with Gordon Brown, Peter Mandelson, Princess Diana, Prince William, Madonna, Paul McCartney and a seemingly endless cast of the rich and famous.'
Mary Riddell, Daily Mail

'The book, The Insider, will run the gamut from Madonna to Cheri Blair, promising to blur the distinction between the trivial and the serious as Morgan has done throughout his career'.
The Observer

'An extraordinary insight into the personality of the Prime Minister'
The Independent

'The story is written "diary style" and gives us hundreds of wonderful tales, some funny, some profound, some just fascinating -'
Book of the Week - Guardian reviewed by Greg Dyke

'The former editor of the News of the World and the Daily Mirror has morphed into the Bridget Jones of Fleet Street. Like Bridget, our Piers lovingly catalogues his prodigious alcoholic consumption, faithfully records his daily ups and downs in the mad, bad and increasingly sad world of red-top tabloid journalism and intriguingly hints at sexual conquests that might have been, from Jodie Kidd to Rachel Stevens to (even!) Cheri Blair - though that might be the Jack Daniels talking.'

'In the vernacular of tabloid journalism, the Morgan Diaries are a right, rollicking good read. Morgan's "diaries" will always be a readable reminder of what it was like when red-tops ruled not just in the newsagents - but in 10 Downing Street.'
Evening Standard - Books - review by Andrew Neil

'unputdownable'
Metro

'Reading the diaries of Piers Morgan one is struck by his sheer sense of joie de vivre.
He should be bottled and sprinkled over miserabilists everywhere'
Sunday Herald on The Insider

'An irresistible read...
It's a compelling read on any level, whether you want to consider the relationship between
politics and the press, royal behaviour, the red-top world - or just want a good laugh.'
The Independent Review Books

'a riveting read with splendid anecdotes on almost every page...This incestuous relationship between a prime minister and red-top editors is not how Britain used to be governed. Morgan's diaries offer as much instruction for students of government as they do students of the press'
The Times

'Many books have been written about the character of the Blair era, but this is the most readable and most devastating'
Saturday Telegraph

'If in years to come this book is remembered and consulted, it will be for its vivid evocation of the tawdry atmosphere of the court surrounding the present occupant of number 10.'
Independent on Sunday

'Love him or loathe him (and after this book you might be surprised) there really is no better or wittier source of scandal, news comment, gossip and intrigue than the infamous and hugely readable Piers Morgan...Bursting at the seams with hundreds of fast-paced tabloid tales, The Insider often reads like a veritable Who's Who of the 90s'
Press Association

'a romping read from beginning to end...Morgan may have an ego as big as his bank balance but he is good fun and great company, and that shines through in the book...The newspaper world is certainly a duller place without Morgan, but at least we have a great book to remember him by'
Charlie Whelan, Scotsman on Sunday

'an amusing, revealing and (mostly) true look at all the news that's fit to print, and some that wasn't'
The Sun

'Destined to be a sensation'
The Independent

 

 

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