[A] fantastically readable and endlessly fascinating book... Delicious, occasionally fantastical, revealing in ways that DowntonAbbey never was. It is as if Tinniswood is at the biggest, wildest, most luxuriantly decadent party ever thrown, and he knows everyone. Rachel Cooke Observer
Adrian Tinniswood is professorial research fellow in history at the University of Buckingham, adjunct professor of history at Maynooth University and the author of many books on British history, including Behind the Throne and the Sunday Times bestseller The Long Weekend. He was awarded an OBE for services to heritage, and lives in the west of Ireland.