Corinne Fowler: Our Island Stories Ana Paula Maia writing and music share a

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and an entertaining reckoning with popular culture that calls to mind Slavoj Zizek at his most accessible

This classic book is a powerful indictment of contemporary attitudes to race

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Corinne Fowler: Our Island Stories Ana Paula Maia writing and music share aPenguin, 2025, softcover, 432 pages, 13 x 19 cm The countryside is almost sacred to many Britons. There is a depth of feeling about rural places, the moors and lochs, valleys and mountains, cottages and country houses. Yet the British countryside, so integral to our national identity, is rarely seen as having anything to do with British colonialism. In Our Island Stories, historian Corinne Fowler brings rural life and colonial rule together, with