This is not just an inspiring, nuanced and deeply literate book, but that rarest of things a necessary one. -- JONATHAN COE, author of Bourneville
Timely, passionate and perceptive . . . Another England tells a new story about England and Englishness, and sets out the possibility for a progressive politics of land, place and nation. This is vital reading. -- ROBERT MACFARLANE, author of Underland and The Lost Words
Another England makes the compelling case that progressives need not shy away from talk of Englishness. Eloquent and persuasive, it offers a powerful new perspective on how we might make our national stories fit for the twenty-first century. -- JON SNOW, former Channel 4 News presenter
An urgent, vital book for our fractured nation . . . By showing us the alternatives in our past, Caroline points to alternatives in our future . . . stories that must be heard more urgently than ever. -- NICK HAYES, author of The Book of Trespass
Essential and magnificent. This book fills a yawning gap, showing how we can create the progressive and inclusive sense of Englishness this country so urgently needs. -- GEORGE MONBIOT, author of Regenesis
Another England is a visionary book, and its also written in the clearest, plainest, and most eloquent prose . . . The authors awareness of the complex fullness of our history is steeped in the language and the landscape, and she sees all the more clearly because of it. I was profoundly impressed. -- PHILIP PULLMAN, author of His Dark Materials
Uncomfortably honest and true . . . Another England is a book we need at this critical time when so much seems lost, when we have become so divided, and so hopeless. -- MICHAEL MORPURGO, former Childrens Laureate
Deft and wonderfully poetic . . . A fascinating and thoughtful reflection on one of the most fraught and important issues of our time. -- GRACE BLAKELEY, author of Vulture Capitalism
Progressives have for too long treated the idea of an English national identity as an embarrassment, allowing the Right to create and exploit a narrow and chauvinistic version of collective belonging. In this vivid and invigorating book, Caroline Lucas shatters these distorting mirrors and reveals a much more interesting and complex picture of Englishness . . . Engaging, illuminating and ultimately uplifting. -- FINTAN OTOOLE, author of Heroic Failure
Caroline Lucas brilliantly draws together the narrative threads of our national stories to define some clear blue water between the British state and an England capable of being inclusive and forward looking, while at the same time bearing the weight of its own history. -- BILLY BRAGG, musician
We can make England brutal or beautiful. To understand the choice and how we make the right one together, read Another England, a wonderful and timely book on the country we can still be. -- NEAL LAWSON, Director of Compass
In Another England, Caroline Lucas sets out to start a conversation about what it means to be English. As such, it provides a remarkably inspiring foundation for such a conversation . . . I absolutely loved it. -- JONATHON PORRITT, former leader of the Green Party
Caroline Lucas is a shining light of integrity and values-based politics . . . This is a clarion call to define England and Englishness as our common ground, and a grounding for a transformation of politics and society. -- KATE PICKETT, co-author of The Spirit Level
Insightful, inspiring and highly readable, in this book Caroline Lucas invites us to ask ourselves a long overdue question: what type of country do we actually want to be? -- KOJO KORAM, author of Uncommon Wealth
An urgent, vital book for our fractured nation . . . By showing us the alternatives in our past, Caroline points to alternatives in our future . . . stories that must be heard more urgently than ever. -- NICK HAYES, author of The Book of Trespass
Poetic and clear-sighted, romantic and analytical, principled and open-minded. Theres no other politician quite like Caroline Lucas . . . She's dug into the soil of England to find a progressive patriotic vision for the twenty-first century. What she discovers is profound, hopeful and radical. A brave and vital book. -- IAN DUNT, author of How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesnt
Combines a love of English literature and its role in telling the story of England with what's gone wrong in politics . . . A very interesting book. -- ALASTAIR CAMPBELL, The Rest Is Politics
