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  • Published: 20 March 2025
  • ISBN: 9781804941591
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $24.99

Another England

How to Reclaim Our National Story





Englishness has been hijacked by the right. This book will help take it back.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'A visionary book' Philip Pullman
'Essential and magnificent' George Monbiot
'Deft and wonderfully poetic' Grace Blakeley

The Right have hijacked Englishness. Can it be reclaimed?

Today, the only people who dare speak of Englishness are cheerleaders for Brexit, exceptionalism and imperial nostalgia. But there is another England, hiding in plain sight, which is dramatically more inclusive and forward looking. Here, Caroline Lucas delves deep into England's literary history to sketch out alternative stories of who we are - ones that we can all embrace to build a greener, fairer future.

'Not just an inspiring, nuanced and deeply literate book, but that rarest of things – a necessary one.' Jonathan Coe, author of Bourneville

  • Published: 20 March 2025
  • ISBN: 9781804941591
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

Caroline Lucas

Caroline Lucas is the MP for Brighton Pavilion, and is the UK’s first and only Green Party MP. First elected to parliament in 2010, Caroline also served as leader of the Green Party of England and Wales from 2008 to 2012, and co-leader from 2016 to 2018. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Exeter, where her dissertation was on the role of women readers in Elizabethan literature. Find her on X @CarolineLucas

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