My most recent book, This Is Not Normal: The Collapse of Liberal Britain, is an edited collection of essays from 2016-20 with a new Introduction and Afterword. It was published by Verso in September 2020.
“The Liberal Trust Crisis’ – Review essay of This Is Not Normal in the LA Review of Books
“This book presses pause on the dazzling contingent brightness of the present, and allows the reflections of the evening to gather and turn towards a new day.”
“Brilliant … Davies will be one of the experts to turn to guide us through the coming years.”
“As William Davies brilliantly articulates in his most recent book, This is Not Normal, it’s hard to convincingly advocate for normality, or indeed for norms in general, if you’ve spent years openly trashing the very notion.”
“This Is Not Normal: The Collapse of Liberal Britain seeks to pore over the deeper roots, expressions and manifestations of four interlocking crises in British politics, addressing some of the most pressing and perplexing questions facing the UK … as Davies so skillfully shows, it would be foolish to make any firm predictions of what happens next.”
“This Is Not Normal seeks to pore over the deeper roots, expressions and manifestations of four interlocking crises in British politics … as Davies so skillfully shows, it would be foolish to make any firm predictions of what happens next.”
William Davies 