Michael Heseltine enjoyed one of the most colourful and creative careers of late 20th-century British politics. In his forthright autobiography, Life in the Jungle , he tells a tale of high drama and high politics - of the clash with Margaret Thatcher over Westland in 1986 which led to his walk-out from her Cabinet, of the duel between the two of them that brought about her downfall in 1990 and of his own restoration to favour in the Conservative Party, culminating in his becoming deputy Prime Minister in 1995. If the top office at Westminster eluded him, nothing much else did - as this vividly told story demonstrates. Life in the Jungle was first published in 2000. For this edition the author, now Lord Heseltine, brings the story up to date with a brief epilogue.