{"title":"Books by James Treadwell","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781447328483","title":"The Rise of the Right","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe shock Brexit result highlighted a worrying trend: underemployed white men and women who have seen their standard of living fall, their communities disintegrate and their sense of value, function and inclusion diminish, desperately want a mainstream political party to defend their interests. However, no such party exists. These men and women cannot connect their declining fortunes and growing frustrations to their true cause. Instead, immigrants are scapegoated and groups like the English Defence League (EDL) emerge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is the first to offer an accessible and uncompromising look at the EDL. It aims to alter thinking about working-class politics and the rise of right-wing nationalism in the de-industrialised and decaying towns and cities of England. The rise of the right among the working class, the authors claim, is inextricably connected to the withdrawal of the political left from traditional working-class communities, and the left’s refusal to advance the economic interests of those who have suffered most from neoliberal economic restructuring. Incisive, contentious and boundary-breaking, it uses the voices of men and women who now support far-right political groups to address the total failure of mainstream parliamentary politics and the rising tide of frustration, resentment and anger.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56299686166901,"sku":"9781447328483","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781447328483_15a8b98a-29de-469d-9517-20f6f4a7c55c.jpg?v=1786020884"},{"product_id":"9781444728491","title":"Advent","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor centuries it has been locked away \u003cbr\u003eLost beneath the sea \u003cbr\u003eWarded from earth, air, water, fire, spirits, thought and sight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut now magic is rising to the world once more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd a boy called Gavin, who thinks only that he is a city kid with parents who hate him, and knows only that he sees things no one else will believe, is boarding a train, alone, to Cornwall.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo one will be there to meet him.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56299837260149,"sku":"9781444728491","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781444728491_dc170cd0-bbb3-4dc1-ac37-645909911cea.jpg?v=1786020724"},{"product_id":"9781529347401","title":"A Fire Beneath the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGod has abandoned the world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerfect for fans of Susanna Clarke and Andrew Taylor!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA country in flames.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1791. \u003c\/b\u003eThe age of belief and superstition is passing. A new light dawns. In Paris, revolution threatens to set the world ablaze.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBut whose hand stokes the fire?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcross the sea in England, Thomas Peach lives in quiet retirement. Some call him a magician, others a madman. But when his friend the poetess Arabella Farthingay falls prey to a sinister seducer, Mr Peach's fading powers are called on once more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe follows her to France - and into a world where reason contends with terror, brotherhood with bloodshed, and the last remnants of faith with the oldest enemy of them all...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for Jas Treadwell:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Treadwell's book is a \u003cb\u003emagnificent pastiche\u003c\/b\u003e of 18th-century fiction'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eTristram Shandy\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eJonathan Strange \u0026amp; Mr Norrell\u003c\/i\u003e in a novel that addresses \u003cb\u003edark disturbing \u003c\/b\u003ethemes with \u003cb\u003etremendous wit, charm and elegance\u003c\/b\u003e'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Express\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Part historical pastiche, part gothic horror, this is an \u003cb\u003eambitious and stylistically bold \u003c\/b\u003e18th-century adventure with shades of \u003ci\u003eJonathan Strange \u0026amp; Mr Norrell'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSFX\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Treadwell's book \u003cb\u003eentertains and impresses\u003c\/b\u003e . . . He must be heartily congratulated both for performing an extraordinary feat of literary ventriloquism and also for reminding us what historical fiction does best: create an entirely convincing vanished world while also using that world as a lens through which to view the present day'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303472804213,"sku":"9781529347401","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781529347401_4ac41efd-3fef-4dd3-8547-b26165c2bd6f.jpg?v=1786022941"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-james-treadwell.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}