Austerity Britain has been selected by the Sunday Times as the best book of the decade. The article in the Sunday Times said of David Kynaston: “Few historians have the power to make you feel you actually inhabit the times they are writing about. Kynaston does. Crowding the pages of this exhaustive look at post-war Britain with hundreds of voices from all walks of life, he summons up the spirit of the age with precision and generosity.” Read the full article here.
Austerity Britain selected as Sunday Times book of the decade
December 16, 2009BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week
November 25, 2009
Family Britain is BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week from 23rd to 27th November. Dominic West reads from David Kynaston’s vivid and intimate history of Britain in the 1950s, drawing on the letters, diaries and memories of well-known and ordinary people. Listen again on the BBC Radio 4 website.
You can also still listen again to David Kynaston being interviewed on BBC Breakfast on the BBC website.
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