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Praise for James Meeks's Private Island Some of it will make you sad, some of it will make you furious, but you are guaranteed to be left feeling that you understand this country much betterc. --John Lanchester He crafts beautiful and vivid passages that turn what could be a dry subject into a highly readable study. --Owen Jones A book that stands as one of the most powerful critiques of the mess that is Britain's economy. --Aditya Chakrabortty, Guardian This is the definitive account of how so much has gone and continues to go wrong with Britain's institutions. --Joan Bakewell If you have a taste for historical irony and absurdity, you'll love this book. --Francis Wheen, Mail on Sunday An energetic and colourfully told polemic. --Financial Times

Some of it will make you sad, some of it will make you furious, but you are guaranteed to be left feeling that you understand this country much better. * John Lanchester, author of Capital and Whoops! [For Private Island] * He crafts beautiful and vivid passages that turn what could be a dry subject into a highly readable study. -- Owen Jones * New Statesman [For Private Island] * A book that stands as one of the most powerful critiques of the mess that is Britain's economy. -- Aditya Chakrabortty * Guardian [For Private Island] * A devastating account of the privatisation dogma of the past 25 years... As demolition jobs go, this can hardly be bettered. -- John Kampfner * Observer [For Private Island] * An energetic and colourfully told polemic against privatisation. * Financial Times [for Private Island] * Meek listens hard . His reportage . demonstrate[s] a sensibility and empathy that are his wont. * Financial Times * Provocative and persuasive. * Herald Scotland * A beautiful collection by a renowned essayist. -- Stephen Bush * Guardian * Meek is brilliant at focusing on a particular case to tell a bigger story. * Labour Briefing * [Meek] explores the slow-moving processes behind the sudden shock of the Brexit vote by getting out and about in Britain, to look beyond London at the competing ideals that led to this culture clash - cosmopolitanism and urbane liberalism against a more traditional yearning for British sovereignty, its mythology and nostalgia. -- Dan Hancox * The National * Clear-headed...Meek has a canny ability to provide plausiable explanations for the motivations of many Leave voters * Peace News *

Praise for James Meeks's Private Island Some of it will make you sad, some of it will make you furious, but you are guaranteed to be left feeling that you understand this country much betterc. --John Lanchester He crafts beautiful and vivid passages that turn what could be a dry subject into a highly readable study. --Owen Jones A book that stands as one of the most powerful critiques of the mess that is Britain's economy. --Aditya Chakrabortty, Guardian This is the definitive account of how so much has gone and continues to go wrong with Britain's institutions. --Joan Bakewell If you have a taste for historical irony and absurdity, you'll love this book. --Francis Wheen, Mail on Sunday Meek listens hard ... His reportage ... demonstrate[s] a sensibility and empathy that are his won't. --Financial Times An energetic and colourfully told polemic. --Financial Times Provocative and persuasive. --Herald Scotland A beautiful collection by a renowned essayist. --Stephen Bush, Guardian

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James Meek is a Contributing Editor of the London Review of Books. He is the author of six novels: The People’s Act of Love, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Ondaatje Prize. We Are Now Beginning Our Descent won the 2008 Le Prince Maurice Prize and The Heart Broke In was shortlisted for the 2012 Costa Prize. His previous non fiction work, Private Island, won the 2016 Orwell Prize. In 2004 he was named the Foreign Correspondent of the Year by the British Press Awards. Website: www.jamesmeek.net

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