Books on Brexit

09/11/2019: What does a spy thriller and an insect in pajamas have in common? The Cockroach by Ian McEwan and Agent Running in the Field by John Le Carré are both works of fiction that are inspired in different ways by Brexit. How can novels make sense of complex and divisive politics in a way that non-fiction can’t? Poet and voracious reader Mark Fiddes and Yvette Judge from the Emirates Literature Foundation review and discuss the merit of these books in isolation and in the wider context of a divided world.

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