These Wild English : A family, a class, a country on fire - Hardback

"This book has considerable political power" — SUNDAY TIMES
"An unforgettable and moving portrait of working-class alienation" — JAMES REBANKS
"Everyone should read this defiant, lively, terrific book" — SPECTATOR

A BOOKSELLER BOOK OF THE MONTH

"I'm England till I die. I know I am, I'm sure I am, I'm England till I die!"

Mum's marching through towns yelling slogans with the EDL. Billy's in prison for armed robbery. And Nicola's left holding the family photos, asking: how did we get here?

A Story of Family, Class, and Country

These Wild English follows three generations of a working-class family as they struggle with the forces reshaping modern Britain.

• Nicola's mum grew up on a farm with seven siblings, part of a family the police knew well and the pubs knew better.
• But that landscape and community is long gone.

As Mum navigates low-paid work and stormy marriages against a constant hum of economic decline, she begins looking for a new source of belonging. The appeal of the far-right will have consequences that stretch far beyond her family.

A Rare and Tender Reckoning

From the working farms of Cumbria to the windswept shores of Kent, via bleak barracks in Cyprus and Northern Ireland, this book offers a rare and tender reckoning with the love, rage, pride, and loss of a community and a country.

It will change how you see the divisions of our age.

Praise for These Wild English

"Utterly compelling" — REBECCA SMITH
"Powerful... sheds light on liberal Britain's betrayal of the white working-class" — OBSERVER
"Vivid and beautifully written" — Daily Mail