Strangeland
How Britain Stopped Making SenseSelect a format:
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Summary
'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 HUSAIN
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.
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 to find a very different place than the one he left. In America, Jon was the outsider looking in, firm in the belief that the common language of English masked our fundamental differences. Strangeland, his first book since launching the global hit podcast The News Agents, is Jon’s account of how much that has changed. What exactly is the Britain he’s come home to? 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 has changed dramatically, or he has. Perhaps it’s both.
As a second Trump administration, and a new chapter of American history, begins to cast its shadow over our own isle, Strangeland paints an unforgettable portrait of a country gone through the looking glass.