Rory Stewart Books In Order

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Publication Order of Anthologies

Rory Stewart is a published British author, academic, broadcaster, and former politician and diplomat.

Roderick James Nugent Stewart was born on January 3, 1973. He has been a Member or Parliament for Penrith and The Border from 2010-2019 for the Conservative Party, has been Minister of State for Environment for the UK government, as well as for International Development, Africa, Prisons, and Secretary of State for International Development. He stood for Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister in 2019 and has co-hosted a podcast called The Rest Is Politics.

He was born in Hong Kong and attended the Dragon School before going on to Eton College and the University of Oxford. He has been a diplomat in Indonesia for Her Majesty’s Diplomatic Service and has been a British Representative to Montenegro. He left briefly to go on a walk for two years across five countries and wrote The Places in Between about it.

Rory also was a Deputy Governor in Maysan and Dhi Qar and wrote a book about it titled Occupational Hazards or The Prince of the Marshes. He established The Turquoise Mountain Foundation in Kabul, moving there in 2005 to create and run it. He has also served at Harvard University as the Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights as well as the director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.

He was elected to the House of Commons in 2010 and chair of the Defense Select Committee in 2014. From 2015 to 2016, he was the Minister for the Environment. He chose to resign from the Conservative Party in 2019 and said he would stand down as an MP for the general election. He withdrew his stance as being an independent candidate in 2020 for the London mayoral election. He has written about his political career in his memoir Politics in the Edge.

He has been the President of GiveDirectly, serving from 2022 to 2023. Rory was also a Yale Jackson visiting fellow from 2020 to 2022. He is a Brady-Johnson professor of the practice of grand strategy at the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University.

Rory grew up in British-ruled Hong Kong to Brian and Sally. His father was born in Scotland and was seemingly a candidate to become Chief of MI6 in the seventies. The family grew up in London before moving to Malaysia and then Hong Kong Once more. He would go to Britain for boarding school before going on to higher education and his father taught him fencing and martial arts. He belonged to the Labour Party as a teen and took a gap year in 1991 where he served shortly on the Black Watch. He was a private tutor to Princess Diana’s sons while attending Oxford.

His travel writing has earned him the Livingstone Medal from the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in 2009. He has also traveled to other countries and his writing on geography in the United Kingdom earned him the Ness Award from the Royal Geographical Society in 2018.

His book The Places in Between was a bestseller on The New York Times, which called it a ‘masterpiece’ and named it one of its top ten notable books of the year in 2006. It also won the Spirit of Scotland award, the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatie Prize, and the Premio de Literatura de Viaje Caminos del Cid. It was also adapted into a radio play broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2007 and the rights were bought by Brad Pitt to make a film about it in 2008, at least according to The Daily Telegraph.

Rory has also appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs and other television and radio programs. He has also served as a columnist for The New York Times and wrote a monthly column for the Cumberland and Westmorland Herald until 2022. He has presented The Legacy of Lawrence of Arabia, a documentary miniseries on BBC Two. He also wrote and presented Afghanistan: The Great Game– A Personal View by Rory Stewart, a two-part documentary that aired on BBC Two and was awarded a Scottish BAFTA. He also wrote and presented a two-part documentary in 2014 about the lost middleland of Britain, which aired on BBC Two. He has also hosted The Long History of Argument, a BBC Radio 4 Podcast.

Rory is married to Shoshana Clark, with whom he has two sons. He belongs to the Special Forces Club and the Athenaeum Club. He has been named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Rory has also received several awards that have been mentioned previously, as well as the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards in 2005 and the British GQ Politician of the Year Award in 2019.

Stewart has also received honorary doctorates from multiple educational structures, has been named a fellow various times, has been sworn into Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, and received The Gold Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Public Discourse from the Trinity College Dublin’s College Historical Society.

The Marches: A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland is Rory Stewart’s book about his thousand mile walk through the borderlands that separate England and Scotland. It was long-listed for the Orwell Prize, was a top ten bestseller on the Sunday Times, and won the Hunter Davies Lakeland Book of the Year as well as being named a book of the month by Waterstones.

This book delves into the conflicts, history, and people that have shaped the Marches, otherwise known as the borderland that exists between England and Scotland.

He has walked through some of the most dangerous borderlands that exist. Now he walks along one in the place that he knows as his home in an attempt to tell its story. The result is an incredible journey that covers a thousand miles, where he sleeps everywhere from farmhouses to in hostels, on housing estates, and on mountain ridges.

Along the way, Rory tells stories from the people that he meets as well as the story of Scotland and more, including the lost kingdom of Cumbria. Full of tradition and history, this is a powerful work that you won’t soon want to miss.

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir from Within is a memoir from Rory Stewart. It was published in the United States under the title How Not to Be a Politician and was an instant Sunday Times best-seller in the United Kingdom.

This insider’s account has been deemed an ‘instant classic’ by Marina Hyde. It was also selected by The Times as one of their biggest books of the autumn and praised by Rafael Behr as being exceptional.

It is the self-told tale of Rory Stewart’s own journey from being on the outside of politics to standing for prime minister before being released from the Conservative Party that had changed so much in his eyes.

Stewart has found out on a firsthand basis how hollow the government and democracy had become. An intriguing story that is humorous and real as it takes a close look at Stewart’s political life and politics in general.