Is This Working?
The Jobs We Do, Told by the People Who Do Them
$24.00
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
28 July 2026
Summary
‘Fascinating and often moving’ - The Sunday Times
‘Unique and unexpectedly moving: it’s a choral work of frustration, pride and despair’ - The Telegraph
‘Charlie Colenutt’s intense and revealing interviews capture the raw voices of people talking honestly about work … Read this, as each one opens a hidden window on the way we live now’ - Polly Toynbee
For the best part of two years Charlie Colenutt travelled the country to talk to a hundred strangers, from all walks of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035015115 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1035015110 |
| Author: | Charlie Colenutt |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 28 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 130mm x 198mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
Critics Review
Colenutt’s intense and revealing interviews capture the raw voices of people talking honestly about work, high and low, fulfilling and crushing. Read this, as each one opens a hidden window on the way we live now – Polly Toynbee
Strangely gripping … Fascinating and often moving * The Sunday Times *
Utterly fascinating … By simply listening to people talk about their jobs, Colenutt has created something unique and unexpectedly moving: it’s a choral work of frustration, pride and despair * The Telegraph *
Charlie Colenutt
Charlie Colenutt studied history at the University of Oxford, where he won the Gibbs Prize. After his undergraduate studies, he stayed in Oxford as the Amelia Jackson scholar, completing a postgraduate degree on the history of the United States. He then had a brief turn as a commercial barrister, before leaving law to work as a writer. He lives on a hill near High Wycombe.
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