By Jonathan Kewley
Yale University Press £45
I had a great surprise when I took Isle of Man to the Isle of Man to test-drive it. The place was not what I expected. I thought it might be like the Isle of Wight. But it's not at all.
The island, as its inhabitants refer to it, reminds me of one of those counterfactual novels where someone else won the war, or William the Conqueror lost at Hastings.
