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Bloomsbury presents A Northern Wind by David Kynaston read by Mark Meadows

A WATERSTONES TIMES TELEGRAPH NEW STATESMAN SPECTATOR AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR
The early sixties in Britain told as only David Kynaston the most entertaining historian alive Spectator can Running from 1962 to 1965 A Northern Wind is the anticipated new volume in the landmark Tales of a New Jerusalem series

Addictively readable Kynastons tireless research turns up plenty of gems Dominic Sandbrook Sunday Times
A breathtaking array of treasures TLS
Magisterial Financial Times
Here is an intricate tapestry that conveys the essence of time Literary Review

How much can change in less than two and a half years In the case of Britain in the Sixties the answer is almost everything From the seismic coming of the Beatles to a sex scandal that rocked the Tory government to the arrival at No 10 of Harold Wilson a prime minister utterly different from his Old Etonian predecessors

A Northern Wind the keenly anticipated next instalment of David Kynastons acclaimed Tales of a New Jerusalem series brings to vivid life the period between October 1962 and February 1965 Drawing upon an unparalleled array of diaries newspapers and firsthand recollections Kynastons masterful storytelling refreshes familiar events the Cuban Missile Crisis the Big Freeze the assassination of JFK the funeral of Winston Churchill while revealing in all their variety the experiences of the people living through this history

Major themes complement the compelling narrative an antiEstablishment mood epitomised by the BBCs controversial That Was The Week That Was a welfare state only slowly becoming more responsive to the individual needs of its users and the rise of consumer culture as Habitat arrived and shopping centres like Birminghams Bull Ring proliferated Multivoiced multidimensional and immersive Tales of a New Jerusalem has transformed how we see and understand postwar Britain A Northern Wind continues the journey