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The Discovery of Britain

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02 October 2025
464 pages
9781035026111
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

Filled with curiosities . . . Ambitious, with a tinge of eccentricity and perfectly grown-up enough to sustain the occasional disagreement, this is a rich pleasure of a book.
Robb tumbles into British history with an infectious enthusiasm . . . immensely entertaining
Remarkable . . . a book as much about the experience of history as history itself . . . Learned and likeable.
Meticulous, contrary . . . Robb has the superb ability of taking a single off-kilter subject and widening it out to illuminate something much larger.