ROBERTS, Simon. The Brexit Lexicon: Brexshit.

[Wigton, Cumbria]: Stanley James Press, 2020.  First edition.  Softcover.  30cm by 21.5cm. This wonderful work is a 18 meter concertina book containing hundreds of Brexit terms collected between 2016 and 2020. The words are printed as one continuous list that runs the full length of the concertina.  Roberts collated newsprint from British media organisations, newspapers, campaign websites, Facebook pages, and official documents issued by the British Government and European Union. Over the course of four years (2016-2020), notable headlines and terminology that had been used to describe the Brexit progress were gathered together to form a database containing over five thousand individual words.  The words are presented here in a form mimicing the format of a TV teleprompter where the pages of the book concertina out to produce one continuous list of words, unfolding to almost 18 metres long.  This is a fine copy in printed card covers.  Published in an edition of just 9 examples.  An important work that through its artifice, k investigates the ways in which Brexit was reported through a combination of truths, mistruths and ‘media noise’, in turn asking questions about the function of mass media, the relationship between politics, media and truth, and explores how language has been wielded in the process of campaigning and reporting.