Just after ten o’clock on Thursday, 7 May 2015 Nick Robinson stared down the zoom lens of camera 5 in the BBC’s Election Night Studio to explain to millions the significance of the exit poll that shocked the country and heralded an earthquake in British politics.

That moment was a personal milestone for the BBC’s Politics Editor, who was simply discharged from hospital simply hours earlier subsequent weeks of treatment for cancer and the increased loss of his voice after surgery.

In the year leading up to that about Election Notebook: The Inside Story Of The Battle Over Britain’s Future And My Personal Battle To Report It night Nick kept a journal recording the events he reported on day after day to millions of viewers and listeners, and which he continued to monitor, often from his hospital bed as he fought to get exercise in time for election night. This is Nick’s behind-the-scenes account of his encounters with David Cameron, who many composed off before the surprise victory he called his ‘sweetest’; Ed Miliband, who converted misuse & ridicule into respect before leading Labour to its most severe defeat within a era; Nick Clegg, who led his party into power and to humiliation and near oblivion; Nigel Farage, who rose so fast and then fell at the final hurdle; Alex Salmond, whose general public clash with Nick led to thousands protesting beyond your BBC’s Scottish HQ, and Nicola Sturgeon, whose spectacular achievement as SNP leader has put Scottish independence back within the map.

The result is an extraordinary narrative, seen as a Nick Robinson’s trademark insight, analysis and backstage gossip, of the adrenaline-fuelled year which culminated within a captivating election that transformed Britain’s political landscape.