This Land

Owen Jones has managed to produce a whodunnit political page-turner and a surprisingly fair account (given that Jones was a player in the Corbyn project) of both an inspiring and tortuous period of Labour history. – Melissa Benn * New Statesman *An absorbing, nuanced account of the making of electoral disaster. – Gaby Hinsliff * Guardian *Very, very powerful … you will not come away from reading This Land without your understanding of what happened to the Labour Party over the last five years massively enhanced. – James O’BrienFor Owen Jones, the drama of these years is almost Shakespearean… Where Jones is strongest, and impressively so, is when he turns his analytical gaze on his own side. His dissection of the anti-Semitism issue is heartfelt and intelligent. His account of the infighting and weakness of the leader’s team rings true… He correctly observes that Brexit left Labour on a hook. – Robert Shrimsley * Financial Times *Jones has [a hard] task: to assess the failure of a project he championed, in which he was a significant player, and which depended on the work and was damaged by the flaws of people he is close to. It is a far more honest account of those difficulties than is ever given by journalists of the political centre, or the right … Jones has made a serious attempt to understand the left’s weaknesses as something other than the fault of the party’s right … Jones is making a brutal assessment, of the sort too often lacking in the past few years, of what is possible. – James Butler * London Review of Books *Owen Jones is a phenomenon of our time * The Times Literary Supplement *The best political book I have read for a long while, all the better for Jones’s unashamed participant observation. – Rod Liddle * The Spectator *

Owen Jones was born in Sheffield, grew up in Stockport and studied history at Oxford. His first book, the international bestseller Chavs, was long-listed for the Guardian First Book Award and chosen as one of The New York Times top 10 non-fiction books of 2011. In 2013 he won Young Writer of the Year at the Political Book Awards. His second book was the bestselling The Establishment- and How They Get Away With It, an expose of Britain’s powerful elites. He is a columnist for the Guardian and a frequent broadcaster.