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The author of Northerners and Manchester Made takes a fresh look at the intertwined histories of Britain and Ireland’s nations – and their people.
‘Rigorous, digressive, discursive. Always entertaining and enlightening’ Stuart Maconie, DJ and author of The Full English
With forays into popular culture, sport, music, language, literature and art, These Isles stretches from 800,000-year-old footprints on a Norfolk beach to the changing fortunes of the early 21st century. It offers a uniquely rich and kaleidoscopic vision of the shared stories of people across Britain and Ireland – past and present.
‘Avoids sentimentality and stereotypes… Groom keeps his history admirably down to earth’ The Times
Author
Brian Groom is a journalist and leading expert on British regional and national affairs. He was assistant editor of the Financial Times and editor of Scotland on Sunday. His first book, Northerners, was a Waterstones History Book of the Year. Made in Manchester was a Financial Times ‘Book of the Year’
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