{"product_id":"strangeland-1","title":"Sopel Jon: Strangeland [2024] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\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\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt just feels like a strange land. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 \u003ci\u003eStrangeland\u003c\/i\u003e, his first book since launching the global hit podcast \u003ci\u003eThe News Agents\u003c\/i\u003e, he asks: What is the Britain he's come home to?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStrangeland\u003c\/i\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA trenchant analysis of politics, people, and everything in between, \u003ci\u003eStrangeland\u003c\/i\u003e is an unforgettable portrait of a country gone through the looking glass.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jon Sopel","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":48993275511123,"sku":"9781529938401","price":26.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/jon-sopel-sopel-jon-strangeland-2024-hardback-9781529938401-57230280622419.jpg?v=1726617547","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/strangeland-1","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}