Strangeland

From 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.'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.It 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.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 he has. Perhaps it s both.A trenchant analysis of politics, people, and everything in between, Strangeland is an unforgettable portrait of a country gone through the looking glass.