A biting and original history which places culture front and centre to explain how our country went to pieces
Alwyn Turner is best known for his trilogy of books about Britain in the last decades of the 20th century: Crisis? What Crisis? (2008), Rejoice! Rejoice! (2010) and A Classless Society (2013). He has appeared on Panorama, The Moral Maze, Today and Richard and Judy, and written for the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian and the Financial Times.
'Up there with the best ... Reading it is almost like an
out-of-body experience, in which you realise that your life and
times will one day be as ancient to others as the Neolithic period
is to us ... All In It Together zings along with such telltale
facts and figures, often with an injection of black humour ...
Wonderfully shrewd ... Brilliant' - Craig Brown
'Hugely engaging ... Turner's genius lies in finding the odd little
stories that get under the nation's skin and reveal what people
were really thinking ... He writes with a tremendous sense of fun.
The result is a rare thing: not just a serious work of contemporary
history, but an unashamed, 24-carat hoot' - Dominic Sandbrook
'Astute and entertaining' - Philip Johnston
'Turner's seductive blend of political analysis, social reportage
and cultural immersion puts him wonderfully at ease with his
readers' - David Kynaston
'Reading Alwyn Turner's account of life in the first two decades of
the 21st century is a bit like trying to recall a dream from three
nights ago. The theme and the mood feel uncannily familiar, but the
details are downright implausible ... His great skill lies in
spotting themes that we might have missed the first time around' -
Kathryn Hughes
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