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Strangeland

How Britain Stopped Making Sense
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From Jon Sopel, bestselling author and presenter of The News Agents podcast, comes his most ambitious book to date—an incisive examination of Britain's New Normal, and what it means for our future. From Jon Sopel, bestselling author and presenter of hit podcast The News Agents, comes... Read More
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From Jon Sopel, bestselling author and presenter of The News Agents podcast, comes his most ambitious book to date—an incisive examination of Britain's New Normal, and what it means for our future.

From Jon Sopel, bestselling author and presenter of hit podcast The News Agents, comes an incisive examination of Britain's New Normal, 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 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.

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 his first book since launching the global hit podcast The News Agents, Jon explores what has happened to the country he once knew. Either Britain has changed dramatically, or he has. Perhaps it's both.

With a second Trump administration already making headlines weekly, and a new bonus chapter examining America's influence over our own isle, Strangeland paints an unforgettable portrait of a country gone through the looking glass.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529938418

Publisher: Ebury Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 May 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Ebury Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 255g

Pages: 368

About the Author

Jon Sopel was the BBC's North America Editor for 8 years, before launching The News Agents podcast with Emily Maitlis and Lewis Goodall in August 2022. During his time at the BBC, he covered the 2016 and 2020 elections and Trump's White House at first hand, reporting for the BBC across TV, radio and online, as well as presenting the highly successful Americast podcast with Emily Maitlis and Anthony Zurcher. He is the author of If Only They Didn't Speak English- Notes from Trump's America, A Year at the Circus- Inside Trump's White House and UnPresidented- Politics, Pandemics and the Race that Trumped All Others.

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