- Published: 18 March 2025
- ISBN: 9781837310302
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 272
Who is Government?
The Untold Story of Public Service
- Published: 18 March 2025
- ISBN: 9781837310302
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 272
This book rightly focuses on the quiet heroes who represent public service at its best... Musk’s demolition derby makes this kind of journalism feel, more than ever, like a civic duty... This eye-opening, multifaceted ode to public service therefore feels both urgent and moving
Dorian Lynskey, Guardian
A vivid and important collection of essays that corrects the caricatures and shows the value of public servants... these are vivid stories, identifying unusual and low-profile work requiring great levels of commitment and expertise... these stories refute the suggestion that the only role of public services is to correct markets... public services create good, even great, outcomes for society
Paschal Donohoe, The Irish Times
As a celebration of the quiet heroism of those whose painstaking work is being laidwaste by Elon Musk’s chainsaw, it’s powerful
The FT
Praise for The Fifth Risk
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Exciting, entertaining, darkly funny
Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times
Life is what happens between Michael Lewis books. I forgot to breathe while reading The Fifth Risk' Michael Hofmann
TLS, Books of the Year
Readable and compelling ... a horrific catalogue of all the things that can go wrong if a government takes its eye off the ball ... We should all be frightened
Brooke Masters, Financial Times
Riveting, jaw-dropping, stranger and more terrifying than fiction
Daily Telegraph
Stunning
Josh Glancy, Sunday Times
The characters are riveting, and the drama intense ... paints a picture of America being not just pulled apart at the political seams, but in the very fabric of the government itself
Harriet Alexander, Daily Telegraph