Reaching for Utopia brings together insightful essays and profiles chronicling the remarkable political and cultural transformations of the last decade - from the fall of Blair to the rise of Corbyn and Brexit. He has met and interviewed all the major political players shaping and changing the way we live today.

The often-credited revitalising force at the "New Statesman" Jason Cowley brings together his most insightful work on the shifting political scene of the past decade, reflecting on such figures as Blair, Corbyn, the Miliband brothers and Alex Salmond. Also includes essays on the political implications of the novels of Martin Amis, Philip Roth, Kazuo Ishiguro and other zeitgeist-inclined fiction writers.