{"product_id":"strangeland-by-jon-sopel-9781529938401","title":"Strangeland","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Jon Sopel, bestselling author and presenter of \u003cem\u003eThe News Agents\u003c\/em\u003e podcast, comes his most ambitious book to date—an incisive examination of post-Brexit Britain, and what it means for our future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'I like and trust Jon Sopel and you should too' - \u003cstrong\u003eJOE LYCETT\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A thrilling, nerve-wracking book. You couldn't make the last ten years up; thanks to Jon Sopel, you don't have to' - \u003cstrong\u003ePETER FRANKOPAN\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A hugely entertaining and quite traumatic rollercoaster' - \u003cstrong\u003eARMANDO IANNUCCI\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'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' - \u003cstrong\u003eMISHAL HUSAIN\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt just feels like a strange land.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt 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 \u003cem\u003eStrangeland\u003c\/em\u003e, his first book since launching the global hit podcast \u003cem\u003eThe News Agents\u003c\/em\u003e, he asks—What is the Britain he's come home to?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStrangeland\u003c\/em\u003e 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\n\n\u003cp\u003eA trenchant analysis of politics, people, and everything in between, \u003cem\u003eStrangeland\u003c\/em\u003e is an unforgettable portrait of a country gone through the looking glass.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46204276441324,"sku":"9781529938401","price":54.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781529938401.jpg?v=1740099020","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/strangeland-by-jon-sopel-9781529938401","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}