The Good Brexiteer's Guide to English
THE GOOD BREXITEER’S GUIDE TO ENGLISH LIT 001_240_Brexiteers Guide_FNL.indd 1 09/07/2018 16:37 THE GOOD BREXITEER’S GUIDE TO ENGLISH LIT John Sutherland PREFACE by John Crace REAKTION BOOKS LTD 001_240_Brexiteers Guide_FNL.indd 3 09/07/2018 16:37 in memoriam Monica Jones, Brexitiste avant la lettre Published by Reaktion Books Ltd Unit 32, Waterside 44–48 Wharf Road London n1 7ux, uk www.reaktionbooks.co.uk First published 2018 Copyright © John Sutherland 2018 Copyright for the Preface © John Crace 2018 The right of John Sutherland to be identified as Author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Acts 1988 All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers Printed and bound in Great Britain by TJ International, Padstow, Cornwall A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library isbn 978 1 78023 992 7 Illustration on p. 16 courtesy of the British Cartoon Archive, University of Kent 001_240_Brexiteers Guide_FNL.indd 4 09/07/2018 16:37 ‘Dust.’ – Philip Larkin’s reply to the question why he never chose to holiday on the Continent, in conversation with the author, c. 1966 ‘That jingoistic England that is trying to march us out of the eu, that is the England I don’t want to know.’ – John le Carré, in high disgust, CBS TV, 18 September 2017 001_240_Brexiteers Guide_FNL.indd
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