Chance Witness: An Outsider's Life in Politics
Matthew Parris
Viking
A frank autobiography by Times columnist and ex-politician Matthew Parris. His childhood was spent on a variety of different countries as his engineer father moved jobs; Rhodesia, Cyprus, the Middle East and
Hoo-Hahs and Passing Frenzies: Collected Journalism 1991-2001
Francis Wheen
Atlantic Books
Francis Wheen has established himself as one of the most brilliant and admired journalists writing in Britain today with his massively acclaimed biography of Karl Marx, his contributions to radio and TV
London Orbital: A Walk Around the M25
Iain Sinclair
Granta
Encircling London like a noose, the M25 is a road to nowhere, but when Iain Sinclair sets out to walk this asphalt loop- keeping within the ‘acoustic footprints’- he is determined to
Marianne in Chains: In Search of the German Occupation 1940-45
Robert Gildea
Macmillan
For the last fifty years, the German Occupation of France has been regarded as a period characterised by four things: cold, hunger, the absence of freedom and above all fear; a time
Patriots: National Identity in Britain 1940-2000
Richard Weight
Pan Macmillan
A brilliant cultural, political and social history of British national identity from our ‘finest hour’ in the dark days of 1940 to the Millennium celebrations of Blair’s Britain. Who are the British
Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland
Neal Ascherson
Granta
Neal Ascherson is one of Britain’s finest writers in an undefinable genre that fuses history, memoir, politics and meditations on places. His books on Poland and his collected essays on the strange