RELEASE DATE - 3 SEPTEMBER 2026

This book is strictly limited to just 1 copy per customer, in our attempt to prevent resellers buying all the stock. Any orders placed for more than 1 copy, will be cancelled and refunded. Multiple orders placed to the same postcode will also be cancelled.

Lifelong socialist and comedy legend Alexei Sayle reflects on his life on the Left through a history of key marches over the past seven decades and asks what we can learn from protest and standing up to power.

Part memoir, part social history, part soapbox, How I’ve Tried to Change the World is a timely, powerful and hilarious book from one of our most beloved comedians. Covering key political moments over the past seven decades, Sayle explores - in his own inimitable dark, absurd and surrealist way - what it means to be left and what being left can offer the world.