Awards

• Short-listed for Orwell Prize 2017
• Shortlisted for Orwell Prize 2017.

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'Tim Shipman's dispatches from the political frontline are a must read if you want to understand what happened beneath the smog and beyond the noise of the conflict' NICK ROBINSON 'Tim Shipman is brilliantly qualified to write the inside story of the referendum, with his unrivalled access to all the players' JOHN RENTOUL 'Britain underwent a political revolution last summer. Tim Shipman, one of the most brilliant, best informed and well-connected journalists in Westminster, has written a superlative book which does full justice to a momentous time in a national history' PETER OBORNE

`I can't imagine a more even-handed or better sourced, all points-of-view account of the biggest story in British politics since WWII ... A fine book' ANDREW MARR, Sunday Times 'Shipman's dispatches are a must read if you want to understand what happened beneath the smog and beyond the noise of the conflict' NICK ROBINSON `Shipman is brilliantly qualified to write the inside story of the referendum, with his unrivalled access to all the players' JOHN RENTOUL `One of the best political journalists of his era ... It's impossible to fully comprehend what happened on June 23 and the ensuing two weeks without reading this book ... Brilliant' IAIN DALE, LBC `Shipman's book is by far the best. It is a detailed, often pitch-perfect account that delivers the tale with an infectious sense of human drama - no mean feat, given the task of completing the whole thing so quickly' JOHN HARRIS, New Statesman `The essential account ... Shipman has spoken to every key individual to produce the definitive first draft of history, a comprehensive yet impartial study of how Brexit won' Financial Times `Excellent ... Shipman convincingly marshals fresh evidence to prove what we already half-knew' WILL HUTTON, Observer `The best political book of the year was undoubtedly Tim Shipman's masterly `All Out War'' New Statesman `Stonkingly good: if you're vaguely interested in politics buy it. It won't be bettered' FRASER NELSON `Thorough, comprehensive and utterly gripping. It is hard to imagine a better first draft of history' Economist `Undoubtedly the British political book of the year' ALEX MASSIE `Shipman, one of the most brilliant, best informed and well-connected journalists in Westminster, has written a superlative book which does full justice to a momentous time' PETER OBORNE `Don't think any of the quotes do justice to quite how good it is. A superb work of reporting and storytelling, and sets new benchmark for the writing of contemporary political history' ANDREW SPARROW

'I can't imagine a more even-handed or better sourced, all points-of-view account of the biggest story in British politics since WWII ... A fine book' ANDREW MARR, Sunday Times' 'Tim Shipman's dispatches from the political frontline are a must read if you want to understand what happened beneath the smog and beyond the noise of the conflict' NICK ROBINSON 'Tim Shipman is brilliantly qualified to write the inside story of the referendum, with his unrivalled access to all the players' JOHN RENTOUL 'For historians this book will be entirely essential ... A fine book' ANDREW MARR, Sunday Times 'Shipman's book is by far the best. It is a detailed, often pitch-perfect account that delivers the tale with an infectious sense of human drama - no mean feat, given the task of completing the whole thing so quickly' JOHN HARRIS, New Statesman 'The essential account of the referendum ... Shipman has spoken to every key individual to produce the definitive first draft of history, a comprehensive yet impartial study of how Brexit won' Financial Times 'Excellent ... Shipman convincingly marshals fresh evidence to prove what we already half-knew' WILL HUTTON, Observer 'The best political book of the year was undoubtedly Tim Shipman's masterly 'All Out War New Statesman 'Stonkingly good: if you're vaguely interested in politics buy it. It won't be bettered' FRASER NELSON 'Undoubtedly the British political book of the year' ALEX MASSIE 'A thumping good read ... highly recommended' STEVE BAKER, MP 'Tim's is the definitive account' ANDY WIGMORE, Director of Communications for Leave EU 'Britain underwent a political revolution last summer. Tim Shipman, one of the most brilliant, best informed and well-connected journalists in Westminster, has written a superlative book which does full justice to a momentous time in a national history' PETER OBORNE 'A superb work of reporting and storytelling, and sets new benchmark for the writing of contemporary political history' ANDREW SPARROW

`I can't imagine a more even-handed or better sourced, all points-of-view account of the biggest story in British politics since WWII ... A fine book' ANDREW MARR, Sunday Times'Shipman's dispatches are a must read if you want to understand what happened beneath the smog and beyond the noise of the conflict' NICK ROBINSON`Shipman is brilliantly qualified to write the inside story of the referendum, with his unrivalled access to all the players' JOHN RENTOUL`One of the best political journalists of his era ... It's impossible to fully comprehend what happened on June 23 and the ensuing two weeks without reading this book ... Brilliant' IAIN DALE, LBC`Shipman's book is by far the best. It is a detailed, often pitch-perfect account that delivers the tale with an infectious sense of human drama - no mean feat, given the task of completing the whole thing so quickly' JOHN HARRIS, New Statesman`The essential account ... Shipman has spoken to every key individual to produce the definitive first draft of history, a comprehensive yet impartial study of how Brexit won' Financial Times`Excellent ... Shipman convincingly marshals fresh evidence to prove what we already half-knew' WILL HUTTON, Observer`The best political book of the year was undoubtedly Tim Shipman's masterly `All Out War'' New Statesman`Stonkingly good: if you're vaguely interested in politics buy it. It won't be bettered' FRASER NELSON`Thorough, comprehensive and utterly gripping. It is hard to imagine a better first draft of history' Economist`Undoubtedly the British political book of the year' ALEX MASSIE`Shipman, one of the most brilliant, best informed and well-connected journalists in Westminster, has written a superlative book which does full justice to a momentous time' PETER OBORNE`Don't think any of the quotes do justice to quite how good it is. A superb work of reporting and storytelling, and sets new benchmark for the writing of contemporary political history' ANDREW SPARROW

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Tim Shipman is the political editor of the Sunday Times. He has been a national newspaper journalist since 1997 and in sixteen years writing about politics he has also reported from Westminster for the Daily Mail and the Sunday Express. Tim was Washington correspondent for the Sunday Telegraph during Barack Obama’s historic first election campaign. He has covered four general elections, three presidential elections, two wars and more leadership contests than he can count. He popularized the word ‘omnishambles’ in Westminster long before George Osborne based a budget on the idea. Tim was chairman of the Parliamentary Press Gallery in 2012. He was shortlisted for the Political Journalist of the Year award at the British Press Awards in 2015, 2016, and 2017. He lives in south-east London with his wife and more than two thousand books.

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