Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain

ISBN-13: 9780241445310 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 352 str.

Sathnam Sanghera

Recenzje

I only wish this book had been around when I was at school Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London

O autorze

Sathnam Sanghera was born to Punjabi immigrant parents in Wolverhampton in 1976. He entered the education system unable to speak English but went on to graduate from Christ's College, Cambridge with a first class degree in English Language and Literature. He has been shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards twice, for his memoir The Boy With The Topknot and his novel Marriage Material. Empireland has been longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, was named a Book of the Year at the National Book Awards of 2022, and inspired both the Channel 4 series Empire State of Mind and Sanghera's children's book about the British empire Stolen History. He lives in London.