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Praise for A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain

‘An excellent vade-mecum for the disgruntled urban flaneur.’ Keith Miller, Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year

‘An exhilarating book. Owen Hatherley brings to bear a quizzing eye, venomous wit, supple prose, refusal to curry favour, rejection of received ideas, exhaustive knowledge and all-round bolshiness. This book is as much a marker for an era as English Journey and Outrage were.’ Jonathan Meades

‘The latest heir to Ruskin … Hatherley blasts the architectural style of New Labour Britain. Whatever your pet-hate, Hatherley will probably have some enjoyably cruel words for it.’ Boyd Tonkin, Independent

‘Compendious, erudite and witty … a man to watch.’ Ken Worpole, openDemocracy.net

‘Witty, occasionally bleak but immensely readable.’ Architects’ Journal

‘This is an important book that is entirely worthy of the arguments it sets out to provoke.’ Patrick Wright, Architecture Today

‘Owen Hatherley is a fulminating critic-cum-flaneur … This is fear and loathing in Lost Albion riffed by a quainter version of Hunter S. Thompson.’ Jay Merrick, Independent

‘A gem of a book.’ Kevin Orr, Socialist Review

‘Wonderfully provocative … Intensely passionate and bitter (I was reminded at times of the thunderous laments of the Victorian sage Thomas Carlyle) … Hatherley’s book is terrifying in its exposure of the human cost of the mistakes that have been made.’ Rupert Christiansen, Daily Telegraph

‘Hatherley is a formidable new voice … this surgical evisceration of the cityscapes of Blairism is required reading.’ Hugh Pearman, RIBA Journal

‘This is the real Britain, and Hatherley is the most informed, opinionated and acerbic guide you could wish for.’ Hugh Pearman, Sunday Times

‘Painted with a raging energy that is exhilarating ... [It’s] political, sinister, sometimes funny.’ Morning Star

‘Hatherley deserves to be widely read … he has brought a welcome freshness and honesty to architectural criticism.” Chris Hall, Icon

‘In this angry, fiercely funny book, Owen Hatherley steps forward as the Pevsner of the PFI generation, an erudite, urbane guide to the Ballardian wreckage of millennial Britain. Essential reading for anyone who ever feels their blood start to boil when they hear the word “regeneration.” ’ Hari Kunzru