Year of the Rat

‘Anyone who wants to understand British politics has to read this book.’ * Grace Blakeley *‘This undercover expose of far right extremism in the UK is truly gripping. Unputdownable.’ * Otto English *A horribly compelling account… What he exposes is both petrifying and sometimes surprising, and is related with admirable compassion, humanity and even humour * Bookseller *Compelling… [Shukman] is to be commended for his efforts, which must have taken courage and determination * Observer *[A] courageous and diligent book… a close and gripping inspection of the character of the far right and threat it poses… Shukman’s reporting is bold and assiduous, and provides rare documentary insight * New Statesman *Shukman’s brave delve into the dark recesses of Britain’s Far Right feels especially timely… The strength of Year of the Rat is…the inferences to the shady puppet-masters who continue to shape world politics for the worse * UK Press Syndication *[An] illuminating and disturbing portrait of today’s British far right * Jewish Chronicle *[An] excellent investigation into the underworld of the British far right… There is…an immense value in the intimacy of Shukman’s account * Times Literary Supplement *

Harry Shukman is a researcher at HOPE not hate, an anti-fascist organisation. Formerly a journalist, he worked as a news reporter for The Times and then a writer and editor for the Manchester Mill - an investigative online newspaper - and its sister sites in Liverpool and Sheffield.