Never Knowingly Understood

Never Knowingly Understood by Anthony Roberts

By turns comforting, acerbic, outrageous and enlightening, a journey through the landscape of modern Britain in the company of the good Dr Roberts makes you see the world in new and strange ways. Gives you a prescription guaranteed to raise a smile, but one that also make you think. Imagine (if you can) the ghosts of Tony Hancock, Lewis Carroll and PG Wodehouse dropped in Castle Park, Colchester and asked to find their way back home, relying only on on their wit and the kindness of strangers. A gem.

Stephen May

Anthony Roberts' columns make me laugh, make me think and sometimes make me wonder what he had for breakfast that morning. They are all beautifully written and full of insight - delivered in his own inimitable style.

Anthony Clavane

Lahouari Addi is a professor at the Institut d'Études Politiques at the University of Lyon, and research fellow at the Centre de Recherche en Anthropologie Sociale et Culturelle in Oran, Algeria. He is the author of numerous books and articles on North Africa and political Islam, including Deux anthropologues au Maghreb: Ernest Gellner et Clifford Geertz and L'Algérie et la Democratie.