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The Politics Week, the UK team is taking a break for the next couple of weeks

but in keeping with one of our traditions I've got a few summer culture and book

recommendations for you. Reach for your e-reader and phone or help your local economy by going to a few shops.

Here are three books, two albums and one TV documentary series that you should make some time for.

San Nams, Sangerra's new book Empire World is the sequel to Empire Land, which came out three years ago in 2021.

That book was a really brilliant exploration of the huge and complicated ways that the British

Empire changed the UK. This one is about the empire's legacy across the world.

It's partly a travelogue describing his immersion in places like India, Barbados, Mauritius and Nigeria and how they bear the signs and scars of British rule and how many of those signs and scars have been smoothed over by a very very familiar sort of

cultural amnesia. What this book brilliantly shines light on is the

delusion of thinking that the conversation about Empire is really only for people

on these islands because as the author

points out it actually involves or ought to involve the 2.6 billion people around the

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