Diaries Volume One

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL was born in Keighley, Yorkshire, in 1957, the son of a vet. After graduating from Cambridge University with a degree in modern languages, his first chosen career was journalism, principally with the Mirror Group. When Tony Blair became leader of the Labour Party, he asked Campbell to be his press secretary. He worked for Blair -- first in that capacity, then as official spokesman and director of communications and strategy -- from 1994 to 2003, since then he has been mainly engaged in writing, public speaking, working for Leukemia Research, where he is chairman of fundraising, and continuing to advise Blair, Gordon Brown and other leading Labour figures. His first novel was All in the Mind.