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Lewis Baston has written on British politics and the electoral landscape for more than thirty years, from polling analysis for the Financial Times to election results analysis for the Guardian. From 2003 to 2010 he was Research Director for the Electoral Reform Society, and from 2011 to 2015 he was Research Fellow at Democratic Audit. He has appeared on BBC Breakfast, The One Show and Sunday Politics, Radio 4's PM and The World Tonight, and on Tim Marshall's series about borderlands for The Compass.
'A stunningly topical and timely book. Lewis Baston is a remarkable talent, very gifted as a writer and quite extraordinarily perceptive and original in his thinking' 'Lewis Baston has incredibly strong research skills, thanks to his brilliant ability to make connections combined with an extraordinary wealth of knowledge. His writing is clear, witty and charming' His great strength is his ability to bring everything alive through his description of the places he goes and the people he meets... Baston's writing is beautiful, and it is combined with a sense of humour and a genuine love and interest for the border regions he visits. But what makes Borderlines a true gem is his ability to connect the history of these borderlands to the people who lives there over the centuries and the people who live there now...[Baston's] unique take on human nature through the history and heritage of the borderlands ends up being deeply moving. * Irish Independent * Free of dogma or indeed of anything even remotely stereotypical. Lewis Baston's writing is thrillingly unique, knowledgeable, perceptive and profound. This is the story of Europe told through the changing places, where one thing becomes another and two things can be true at the same time, blending psychology, travel, politics, history and geography. I'm not sure I've ever read anything quite like it. -- IAN DUNT 'A light-footed journey along the fault lines of history. Baston reveals a forgotten Europe, one that was and may have been.' -- KATJA HOYER, bestselling author of Beyond the Wall 'A stunningly topical and timely book. Lewis Baston is a remarkable talent, very gifted as a writer and quite extraordinarily perceptive and original in his thinking' -- ANTHONY SELDON A thoughtful tour of boundaries, identities and places in-between... refreshing and important. -- RAFAEL BEHR An original, charming and thought-provoking journey along many Europe's most interesting borders, visible, invisible and fiercely contested. -- TIMOTHY GARTON ASH, author of Homelands: A Personal History of Europe 'Lewis Baston has incredibly strong research skills, thanks to his brilliant ability to make connections combined with an extraordinary wealth of knowledge. His writing is clear, witty and charming' -- ALEX VON TUNZELMANN 'The past, that foreign country, haunts Borderlines in often surprising and unexpected ways... A vivid, deeply researched and fascinating story.' -- JOHN FREEMAN, author of Reaction
