Alan Johnson

Alan Johnson is a British politician and author who served as Home Secretary, Health Secretary, and Education Secretary in Labour governments. Before entering politics, he was a postman and trade union leader. Death on the Thames is one of his crime novels — fiction that draws on his deep knowledge of London and its characters. Johnson's memoir series — This Boy, Please, Mister Postman, and The Long and Winding Road — has been widely praised as some of the finest political memoir writing in recent years. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers entertaining crime fiction and acclaimed memoir from one of Britain's most interesting political figures.