{"product_id":"9781529938418","title":"Strangeland : How Britain Stopped Making Sense","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Sopel, Jon\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eUnited Kingdom, Great Britain\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 29 May 2025 by Ebury Publishing (Ebury Press) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 368 pages\u003cbr\u003e128 x 197 x 25 | 256g\u003cp\u003eFrom Jon Sopel, bestselling author and presenter of hit podcast The News Agents, comes an incisive examination of post-Brexit Britain and what it means for our future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'I like and trust Jon Sopel and you should too'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'PETER FRANKOPAN'A hugely entertaining and quite traumatic rollercoaster'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'MISHAL HUSAINReturning 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 it’s changed, or I have. Maybe both.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt just feels like a strange land. 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 he’s 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStrangeland 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 he has. Perhaps it’s both.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA trenchant analysis of politics, people, and everything in between, Strangeland is an unforgettable portrait of a country gone through the looking glass.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sopel, Jon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52350406983864,"sku":"9781529938418","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781529938418.jpg?v=1764862787","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781529938418","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}