The Official History of Britain by Boris Starling

The Official History of Britain by Boris Starling

Entertaining and absorbing The Sunday Times A wonderfully written and entertaining book which places Britain under the microscope and asks who we are today and how weve changed as a nation.

'This book feels like an early stocking fillerIt is entertaining and absorbing… the statistical detail can be illuminating.’ The Sunday Times

‘A statistical history of Britain fit for the census year…short, readable and rigorous.’ The Financial Times

Boris Starling is an award-winning author, screenwriter and journalist who, with this book, has finally put his history degree of 30 years ago to good use. He is a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller for both fiction and non-fiction, and his first novel Messiah was adapted into a BBC series which ran for five seasons. He is also the author of the popular Haynes Explains series and writes regularly for several national newspapers. He lives in Dorset with his wife, children, greyhounds and chickens.

David Bradbury, who assisted Boris with this book, is a long-serving senior media relations officer for the Office for National Statistics. He too studied history at university and edited the award-winning Statlas UK: a Statistical Atlas of the UK for the Central of Information and the Ordnance Survey, before joining the ONS soon after it was established. He divides his time between London and Oxford.

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ISBN 13	9780008412197
ISBN 10	0008412197
Title	The Official History of Britain
Author	Boris Starling
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2020-10-15
Number of pages	304
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