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14
/100
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17/100Critics
10/100Scholars
Author:
James Hamilton-Paterson
Publisher:
Head of Zeus
Date:
August 22, 2024
The esteemed British writer charts what he sees as a decline in Britain since World War II, touching on the decimation of the manufacturing industry, the rise of the banking sector, and other troubling developments.
What The Reviewers Say
James Hamilton-Paterson, still one of England’s most skilled and alluring prose writers in or out of fiction, has done something...original. With imaginative scenes enacting ‘what we have lost’, he combines closely researched and detailed accounts of the decay of one legendary British product after another. Cars, motorbikes, shipbuilding and the nuclear industry are all there.
First.
...engaging and racy.
Reading it is a little like hearing an elderly relative insist the old days were better. You know some things were, but that there is another side to the story too.
