What exactly made Britain — this small, rain-soaked island off the coast of Europe — so influential that it transformed the modern world? And why does it now seem to be losing its way?

In The Nine Values That Shaped Great Britain, Gavin Fraser takes readers on a lively and eye-opening journey through Britain’s moral DNA — the unwritten rules and instincts that built its democracy, industry, humour, and sense of fair play.

     From the battlefield to the cricket pitch, the market square to the Bake Off tent, Fraser argues that Britain’s success was never about being “nice” — it was about living by nine enduring values: Fair Play for All, The Free Individual, Suspicion of Power, Joining In the British Way, Owning Our Mistakes, Duty Before Self, Humour in Hardship, Evolution Not Revolution, and Pushing Boundaries.

     Part history, part social commentary, and part love letter to a country that changed humanity, the book explores:

• How centuries of war, weather and compromise forged a distinctive moral code.

• Why some immigrants who “get” Britain — from Nadiya Hussain to Mo Farah — are embraced so wholeheartedly and why other immigrants muddle along or struggle to fit in.

• What happens when those shared values fray and the nation turns on itself.

• And how, by remembering what it once stood for, Britain can lead the world again — not through empire or arrogance, but by example.

     Smart, funny, and fiercely relevant, The Nine Values That Shaped Great Britain is both a diagnosis and a cure — a reminder that national greatness begins not with slogans or politics, but with the character of its people.