Autor Andrew Pettegree

Bookshops are a comforting sight on our high streets, warm and welcoming spaces in which to browse, meet friends and occasionally buy books. They may feel timeless, yet their history is a restless and turbulent one, filled with as many entrepreneurial…

'Rich, authoritative, and highly readable ... [a] tour de force' David KynastonChairman Mao was a librarian. Stalin was a published poet.Evelyn Waugh served as a commando - before leaving to write Brideshead Revisited. Since the advent of modern warfare,…