Nominated for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. As every schoolboy knows, all of England is watching the Isle of Wight. The grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does just that. He builds on the island 'The Project', a massive heritage center that contains everything 'English', from Big Ben to Stonehenge, from Manchester United to the white cliffs of Dover. The Project is monstrous, risky, and extremely successful. In fact, it gradually begins to overshadow 'old' England and even threatens to surpass it.

One of Barnes' best and wittiest novels, England, England questions the idea of replicas, truth vs. fiction, reality vs. art, nationality, myth-making, and self-discovery.

A brilliant, Swiftian fantasy.