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Ebury Press has snapped up Strangeland, an examination of Britain’s "new identity crisis" by Jon Sopel, who hosts the "The News Agents" podcast.
Publishing director Albert DePetrillo acquired world rights from Rory Scarfe at The Blair Partnership, and the book will be published on 26th September in hardback.
"In 2022, after eight years of political reporting in the US, Jon Sopel moved home to the UK," the synopsis says. "Having spent almost a third of his career abroad, he returned to find a very different country to the one he left. In Strangeland, Jon examines his homeland with fresh eyes, as a native who’s been out but come back, unpicking the changes that have rendered Britain almost unrecognisable from the country he once knew."
Sopel said: "After eight years in America, I thought coming back to the UK would be a dose of sanity, but I came back in 2022 to a country I could barely recognise. Everything seemed to be in meltdown. This is why I decided to write Strangeland and interrogate what Britishness looks like post-Brexit."
DePetrillo added: "Jon has long been in a category of one with his political reporting, his witty and trenchant analysis providing clarity in a land of confusion – and few lands have been more confusing than Trump’s America. In turning his focus to Britain, though, he’s created something extraordinary; his characteristic wry wit is still on display, coupled with a crispness that has become the hallmark of his work on ’The News Agents’."