The good brexiteers guide to English lit

What is Nigel Farage's favorite novel? Why do Brexiteers love Sherlock Holmes? Is Philip Larkin the best Brexit poet ever? Through the politically relevant sideroad of English Literature, writ large, John Sutherland quarries the great literary minds of English history to assemble the ultimate reading list for Brexiteers.

Brexit shook Britain to its roots and sent shockwaves across the world.

But despite the referendum victory, Brexit is peculiarly hollow.

It is an idea without political apparatus, without sustaining history, without field-tested ideology.

As Sutherland argues: it is without thinkers - like Frankenstein waiting for the lightning bolt.

In this irreverent, entertaining, and utterly tongue-in-cheek new guide, Sutherland suggests some stuffing for the ideological vacuity at the heart of the Brexit cause.