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Drawing on personal experience and original research, as well as taking in poetry, spy films, popular novels and rock music, James Brooke-Smith offers a fresh account of the British public school.

In The Europe Illusion, Stuart Sweeney considers Britain’s relationships with France and Prussia-Germany since the map of Europe was redrawn at Westphalia in 1648.

Roger Luckhurst takes in a wide range of sources, from architectural history to fiction, film and television, to explore how the corridor went from a utopian ideal to a place of unease: the archetypal stuff of nightmares.

In this irreverent and entertaining new guide, Sutherland suggests some stuffing for the ideological vacuity at the heart of the Brexit cause. He looks for jingoistic meaning in the works of William Shakespeare, Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy, in modern classics like The Queen and I and London Fields, and in the national anthem, school songs and great poetry of the country.

The most exciting book on Vikings for a generation, Laughing Shall I Die is a bold and entertaining exploration of their three-century-long domination of the North.