{"product_id":"9781529938401","title":"Strangeland : How Britain Stopped Making Sense","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Sopel, Jon \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 26\/09\/2024,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 336 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781529938401,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReturning 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":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43704919654444,"sku":"9781529938401","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781529938401.jpg?v=1722933466","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781529938401","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}