- Published: 11 January 2011
- ISBN: 9781446448090
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 352
The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain
- Published: 11 January 2011
- ISBN: 9781446448090
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 352
Ian Jack's superbly evocative essays are the ideal advertisement for the virtues of print journalism
Rachel Cooke, The Observer
Ian Jack does for Great Britain what Arthur Miller did for the US and portrays a land through journalistic vignettes and essays
Emmanuelle Smith, Financial Times
An intriguing selection of the writing of Ian Jack...Jack masterfully reflects on the past while bringing modern life into sharp focus...despite taking an unflinching approach, his work is often humorous
Tom Hicks, Metro
The crazy competitiveness of the British newspaper industry does not, alas, generate a commensurate quality of journalism...Ian Jack is a rare and shining exception to that rule...His contributions to "this unequal struggle to preserve and remember" cumulatively transcend journalism and attain the status of literature.
The Economist
One of our most prized journalists...we are lucky to have him. Where in many places else there is cant abounding, here is that rare thing, cant deficiency
Giles Foden, Guardian
Superb
Alexander Chancellor, Spectator
Jack's eye for precise detail, his curiosity and his luminous intelligence shine through every piece. His is a kind of writing we are lucky to still have around
Jackie Kay, The Scotsman
This is a beady, sometimes moving book which proves that the finest journalism is worth paying for
Rachel Cooke, New Statesman, Books of 2009
Ian Jack's journeys in Britain and India are illuminating and memorable
Sean O'Brien, Times Literary Supplement
Nostalgia drives this collection of Jack's journalism... Jack's backward-looking stance works best when he is exposing the vandalism of the past.
Guardian
For a perceptive perspective on the Britain that we're leaving ever further behind, Jack's journalism is hard to beat
David Robinson, Scotsman