A panoramic new history of modern Britain, as told through the story of one extraordinary family, and one groundbreaking company.
Thomas Harding is an author and journalist who has written for the Financial Times, the Sunday Times, the Washington Post and the Guardian, among other publications. He co-founded a television station in Oxford, England, and for many years was an award-winning documentary maker. He also ran a local newspaper in West Virginia, winning the West Virginia Association of Justice's Journalist of the Year Award, before moving back to England in 2011, where he now lives with his family. He is the author of Hanns and Rudolf, a Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the JQ-Wingate Prize; the internationally acclaimed Kadian Journal- A Father's Story; The House by the Lake, a Costa Biography Award and Orwell Prize nominee; and Blood on the Page, winner of the 2018 Golden Dagger Award for Non-Fiction.
I was riveted: this is a fascinating social history.
*Nigella Lawson*
A magnificent book… what a story this is. Endlessly
fascinating.
*Jewish Chronicle*
This story of the family behind the Lyons Corner Houses and many
other ventures, its rise and its business demise, is endlessly
fascinating and hard to put down. I read it all in one sitting,
enjoying the colour and grandeur, whilst spitting with fury at how
women were kept out of the financial loop. Full of character and
characters, this is a tour de force.
*Rabbi Julia Neuberger*
Enthralling... fascinating. Nearly half a century on, the Lyons
name and Corner Houses have faded, quite forgotten. I dream of them
still.
*Observer*
Five stars. History on a scale at once intimate and grand…
extremely readable.
*The Telegraph*
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