'A fantasy of escape': the best books about islands

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From Samuel Johnson to JG Ballard, Madeleine Bunting picks five books exploring Britain’s island mentality

The crisis over Brexit has deep roots in a central trope of the English imagination: islands. Trace it back to John of Gaunt’s speech in Richard II – “this little world / This precious stone set in the silver sea / Which serves it in the office of a wall … This blessed plot” – and then follow the sequence of iconic titles from Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe right down to the Lord of the Flies.

 

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