Ghosts of Empire

I don’t venture out of the world of fiction very often – when I do it’s mostly to biographies or textbooks for my Open University course,  but a new history book by a local Member of Parliament has caught my eye.  Spelthorne’s Conservative MP Kwasi Kwarteng has explored Britain’s Imperial past in Ghosts of Empire: Britain’s Legacies in the Modern World.  Kwarteng comes from a right-of-centre political background so it’s likely that he’ll offer a different point of view to that in the majority of historical texts out there.