'Exquisitely written and ripe with detail' Sunday Times . 'An engaging book ... He knows his British stuff' The Times . 'One of England's most skilled and alluring prose writers in or out of fiction, has done something even more original' London Review of Books . WHAT WE HAVE LOST IS A MISSILE AIMED AT THE BRITISH ESTABLISHMENT, A BLISTERING INDICTMENT OF POLITICIANS AND CIVIL SERVANTS, PLANNING AUTHORITIES AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, WHO HAVE PRESIDED,...