Strangeland: How Britain Stopped Making Sense

Jon Sopel, bestselling author and presenter of the hit podcast "The News Agents," offers an insightful examination of post-Brexit Britain and its implications for the future in his book "Strangeland." Sopel, who spent eight years reporting on politics in the US, found a vastly different country upon his return to the UK. He questions the common language of English and the values and beliefs shared with European neighbors. The book is a captivating account of how much has changed in Britain, either through dramatic shifts in the country or through Sopel's own perspective. It provides an unforgettable portrait of a country gone through the looking glass.

Format: Hardback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 26 September 2024
Publisher: Ebury Publishing

From Jon Sopel, the best-selling author and host of the hit podcast "The News Agents," comes a penetrating analysis of post-Brexit Britain and its implications for our future. "I like and trust Jon Sopel, and you should too," says JOE LYCETT. "A thrilling, nerve-wracking book. You couldn't make the last ten years up; thanks to Jon Sopel, you don't have to," says PETER FRANKOPAN. "A hugely entertaining and quite traumatic rollercoaster," says ARMANDO IANNUCCI. "Acute and unflinching - Sopel deploys his foreign correspondent skills on home shores as well as far ones, and brings together the story of a tumultuous few years on both sides of the Atlantic," says MISHAL HUSAIN. "Returning to the UK in some ways has been disconcerting – or maybe discombobulating would be a better word. It is, after all, my home; it is where I grew up, a country I love and am proud of. But either its changed, or I have. Maybe both," says JOE LYCETT. "At the beginning of 2022, after eight years of political reporting in the US, Jon Sopel returned home to the UK – and having spent almost a third of his career abroad, he found a very different place to the one he left. In "Strangeland," his first book since launching the global hit podcast "The News Agents," he asks: "What is the Britain hes come home to?" In the US, Jon was the outsider looking in, firm in the belief that the common language of English masked our fundamental differences; in terms of values and beliefs, it seemed the British had much more in common with our European neighbours. "Strangeland" is Jon's account of how much that has changed. The US was a country he thought he knew well but didn't really; returning home has been in some ways even more disconcerting – either Britain, the country he grew up in, has changed dramatically, or .

Weight: 542g
Dimension: 164 x 243 x 33 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529938401