She wades through the sorrows of the next year through apathy, anguish and rage, lost in a world that turns on, regardless. SK Perry Melville House, £14.99 A bereavement in four seasons, Let Me Be Like Water follows Holly to Brighton after her boyfriend is killed in a car crash. It's certainly a timely book but reaches some questionable conclusions. He rightly condemns as anachronistic the modern tendency to expect people from earlier historical periods to think and behave as we do but his tendency to ascribe "nationalism" (essentially a 19th-century concept) to the Anglo-Saxon and medieval periods might also be considered anachronistic. The decline of these has led to a loss of pride in English nationalism and to "anger, ugliness and insularity". Common Law, parliament, Protestantism and empire were its chronological building blocks. He gives English nationalism deep historical roots. He also believes accounts of the British Empire have been "overly critical" and that "Britain has a more noble and more distinctive history than is often allowed for". Jeremy Black Hurst, £16.99 Jeremy Black believes membership of the EU has led to a partial loss of British sovereignty, which has caused "a sense of dislocation" for many English people, and that the "four nations" approach to the history of these islands, "highly fashionable" since the 1980s, has paid insufficient attention to England.
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