-Challenging, forensic, compelling'' SATHNAM SANGHERA
-Pure centrist erotica. A myth-busting chronicle of bad-tempered, Brexit-riven England'' SUNDAY TIMES
-Wonderfully evocative. Too honest, too nuanced and too deep for any party manifesto'' MATTHEW PARRIS
After an election where people voted for a politics that our new Prime Minister describes as ''treading more lightly on people-s lives'', this must-read book charts a gentler course for a country that has suffered the ructions of profound change in recent decades.
Some politicians will still talk of restoring an English birthright of liberty and the swashbuckling self-confidence to rule the waves. Others yearn for the old-fashioned morality which they claim once civilised a savage world or want to look inwards to a story of an enchanted island that can stand alone and isolated against the world.
But England, by Tom Baldwin, the bestselling biographer of
