- Published: 15 January 2010
- ISBN: 9780091929848
- Imprint: Vermilion
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 512
- RRP: $29.99
Britain On The Couch
How keeping up with the Joneses has depressed us since 1950
- Published: 15 January 2010
- ISBN: 9780091929848
- Imprint: Vermilion
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 512
- RRP: $29.99
A fascinating book
Sunday Times
Vital questions are explored in this stimulating tract for our times, which deserves to be widely read, especially by those who govern us
Anthony Storr
Well worth reading ... the author has recognised important social phenomena which have escaped less astute or honest observers
Sunday Telegraph
Oliver James is a necessary and powerful voice in our culture, and Britain on the Couch is a fabulous exposure of the failure of the neo-liberal project
Tom Hodgkinson, editor of the Idler
I think Oliver James and I are getting at the same thing: we are encouraged to believe that we can sort out our problems without any real effort and get pretty fed up when it becomes obvious we can't
John Humphreys, Devil's Advocate
this was a very important book
Richard Layard, author of Happiness
I drew heavily on Britain on the Couch
Richard Wilkinson, author of The Spirit Level