Strangeland

<b>From Jon Sopel, bestselling author and presenter of hit podcast <i>The News Agents</i>, comes an incisive examination of post-Brexit Britain and what it means for our future.<br><br><br>'I like and trust Jon Sopel and you should too'</b><br>JOE LYCETT<br><br><br><b>'A thrilling, nerve-wracking book. You couldn't make the last ten years up; thanks to Jon Sopel, you don't have to'</b><br>PETER FRANKOPAN<br><br><br><b>'A hugely entertaining and quite traumatic rollercoaster'</b><br>ARMANDO IANNUCCI<br><br><br><b>'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'</b><br>MISHAL HUSAIN<br><br><br><br><i>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 it’s changed, or I have. Maybe both.</i><br><i>It just feels like a strange land. </i><br><br>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 <i>Strangeland</i>, his first book since launching the global hit podcast <i>The News Agents</i>, he asks: What is the Britain he’s come home to?<br><br>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.<br><br><i>Strangeland</i> 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.<br><br>A trenchant analysis of politics, people, and everything in between, <i>Strangeland</i> is an unforgettable portrait of a country gone through the looking glass.