A nuanced, complicated account of the British empire’s impact on the world as we know it.

In Empireworld Sanghera aims not to make an "overall positive or negative conclusion about British empire" but to make "qualitative judgments, on a smaller scale". Of course readers may query some of these micro-judgments.

The charge sheet against imperialism grows with every page, even as Sanghera seeks to present more nuanced reflections.

The author writes well with humour and style and he has a journalist’s eye for detail and colour. He has researched well and details his narrative with the support of "expert imperial historians".

Refined, subtle, accurate, analytical, witty, engaging, and questioning.

A staggering and distressing read.

A mix of travelogue, memoir, newspaper column and serious historical work.

[Sanghera] offers rich and thoughtful engagements with bodies of scholarly work grafted on to travelogues based on his reporting trips to Nigeria, Mauritius, Barbados, New Delhi and beyond.

Supremely readable.

The author’s style is often disarmingly colloquial... a mannerism that amplifies his sincerity. If the scope of his interrogation is vaster and therefore harder to contain than that of his earlier work, his honest attempt to reckon with it is just as compelling..