William Blake & the sea monsters of love Southern Africa We are not alone in

We are not alone in the countryside

you need only an awareness of the general shape of matters:How do things workWho are the playersWhat are the competing interestsWhat questions should I be askingSo while you don’t need to know the details

working in a factory making nuts and bolts in Salford to singing in working men's clubs to performing to stadiums filled with thousands of fans

As a young boy

serious analysis and wryly amusing asides’ Daily Telegraph   ‘Superb’ Observer   ‘Extraordinary… A meticulous retelling of a terrible yet scientifically innovative period… Makes an urgent case for building a better future on our toxic past’ Guardian   ‘This is history of the best sort – humanly engaged but never sentimental’ Mail on Sunday  Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death

William Blake & the sea monsters of love Southern Africa We are not alone inNamed a BOOK OF THE YEAR by The Times and Sunday Times,New Statesman,Spectator,Prospect, and New Yorker. 'Undoubtedly Hoare's masterpiece' Olivia Laing 'Queer in all senses of the word' Neil Tennant 'A life changing book' Robert Douglas Fairhurst, The Times 'Fabulously idiosyncratic' Lucy Hughes Hallett, New Statesman