Titles by authors such as Fintan O’Toole, James O’Brien and Jonathan Coe confound bleak consumer trends
Books tackling Brexit may not qualify as escapist literature, yet a slew of new writing, fiction and non-fiction is proving British readers are looking in greater numbers for ways to understand the causes and outcomes of the country’s current strategic impasse.
Titles such as Fintan O’Toole’s Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain, Tim Shipman’s Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem, and How to be Right … in a World Gone Wrong, the bestseller from radio presenter James O’Brien, are all confounding bleak consumer trends, as are novels such as Jonathan Coe’s Middle England. And coming soon is a long-anticipated follow-up to the popular 1982 novel A Very British Coup that will tackle the impact of Brexit head-on. Writer Chris Mullin’s sequel, to be published on 28 March – the day before the Brexit deadline – is called The Friends of Harry Perkins and is billed by publishers Scribner as “the definitive post-Brexit thriller”.
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