An English Affair by Richard Davenport-Hines

An English Affair by Richard Davenport-Hines

WINNER OF THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of social revolution.

Independent on Sunday Books of the Year `Wonderful and exacting’

Mail on Sunday Books of the Year `A breakneck thriller and a brilliant dissection of the times’

Independent on Sunday Books of the Year `This is more than simply an overview of the affair…Davenport-Hines skewers an entire society’

`A wonderful evocation of the period; a Rolls-Royce ride, with that hugely enjoyable sense of a writer being op top of his material and perfectly attuned to his subject’ David Kynaston, author of `Austerity Britain’

`An outstandingly evocative portrait of a hinge moment in our recent history, as well as a treasure trove of anecdotes’ Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times

`Fascinating … a meticulous and witty portrait of a society built on the shaky foundations of snobbery, suspicion, hypocrisy and sexual anxiety’ Mail on Sunday

`MesmerisingBrilliantly researched, irresistibly readable, fiercely polemical, `An English Affair’ ought to sit on the desk of everyone who voices a view on the entanglement of politics, media and celebrity … No book about the British past this year will cast a fiercer light on the British present’ Independent

`His research is impeccable and the story told with lip-smacking relish’ Daily Express

`A superb book’ Evening Standard

`[The Profumo Affair] has found a marvellous chronicler in Davenport-Hines, an incisive writer with a terrific eye for detail’ Sunday Telegraph

`[A] superb account of the scandal’ Mail on Sunday,

`[This] livid, lurid but enthralling history of “sex, class and power in the age of Profumo” boasts a rare passion and bravado’ Independent

`It is written in a wonderfully sharp and witty style, and packed with illuminating details’ Craig Brown, Books of the year, Daily Mail

Richard Davenport-Hines won the Wolfson Prize for History for his first book, `Dudley Docker’. He is an adviser to the `Oxford Dictionary of National Biography’ and has also written biographies of W.H. Auden and Marcel Proust. His most recent book, `Titanic Lives’ was published in 2012. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Literature, he reviews for the Spectator, Literary Review, Sunday Telegraph and Times Literary Supplement.

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ISBN 13	9780007435845
ISBN 10	0007435843
Title	An English Affair
Author	Richard Davenport-Hines
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2013-01-03
Number of pages	416
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