Faber & Faber, 2025, softcover, 48 pages, 12.78 x 16.59 cm
In this incisive, moving and personal essay, one of the nation's leading political voices, explores the 'burden of representation'.
Gary Younge analyses the pressures exerted upon the relatively small group of people from underrepresented communities, who break through into elite spaces and the expectations that may come from above, below, within and outwith, from those with power and those without. These are issues that have framed, frustrated, inspired, and inflected his entire working life as a writer.
