...from a Labour insider!
More stories of bad temper tantrums, more of how even junior staff at no10 get abused by Brown, Nokias sent flying.
Yet the book potentially most damaging to Brown is still to be published, Andrew Rawnsley's. Because of his journalistic reputation his book will be taken more seriously than the others, simply because the hatred and tensions within the Labour Government are well known. Rawnsley is considered overall to be sympathetic to Labour but nevertheless has a spotless reputation as an impartial journalist. The press narrative on his book so close to an election can do nothing but damage Brown in particular and Labour's prospects of achieving the hung parliament they are hoping for.
I can't help reflect that Brown must be the unluckiest PM we have ever had, everything he touches turns to dust. But then I also believe that we make our own luck and poor judgement over 13 years is biting him hard.
This is what Mike Smithson of politicalbetting has written.
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The latest is by Lance Price, deputy to Tony Blair's communications director Alastair Campbell and the first part of its serialisation starts today in the Independent.
One extract goes: "...When he believes a story is running out of control or that - the worst sin of all - the press office has been caught unawares, he can react with extraordinary flashes of anger. Stories of mobile phones hurled across the room in fury regularly appear in the press, although it rarely gets to that stage. Shouting at staff, jabbing an angry finger, throwing down papers, even kicking the furniture are far more common.
His behaviour towards relatively junior members of staff can be "unforgivable" according to one person who has witnessed it. "It isn't a very nice place for people to work. However bad it sometimes looks from the outside, it's far, far worse from the inside. And the atmosphere is very much set by him.."
My guess is that there'll be two main consequences. Firstly Price just adds to the picture that we've seen in the Peter Watts book and the reports of what's going to be Andrew Rawnsley's. And that of itself is damaging and could be narrative changing.
Probably worse, the publication will do exactly what Price describes when bad news hits Brown Centrral - the PM could lose his stride and sure-footedness.
For Brown is very much a confidence politician and once that goes all the problems seem to be magnified - not a good state of mind at the start of an election campaign.
It's been noticeable how little barbs based on earlier revelations have knocked him off-balance at recent PMQs.
And, of course, every news cycle that's taken up with Brown's management style is one less day when they can be attacking the Tories and putting the focus on Cameron's policies.
Looking ahead the next big moment will be the serialisation of the Andrew Rawnsley book. This has already received fairly sensational coverage and will probably be more potent because of Rawnsley's journalistic reputation. """"""""""""""
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