‘Next year I want to focus on reading that is fun’
Sathnam Sanghera
I’ve written three books on the British empire, so have basically just been reading history for about five years. Last year the best was, without doubt, Matthew Parker’s One Fine Day. It was such a great idea to tell this complex history through the prism of one day in 1923, when the British empire hit its peak. Doing so meant he was immediately freed from the inane “balance sheet” view that has British historians forever listing the positives and negatives of the enterprise. What emerges instead is a nuanced and readable book.
