David Kynaston (b.1951) has written about 16 history books on broadly three topics: cricket, the City of London, and Britain after the Second World War. His post-war histories (to date; the plan is to take them up to 1979) have been published as three volumes, each of which – rather confusingly – contains two ‘books’:
- Austerity Britain, 1945–51 (2007) containing:
- Family Britain, 1951–57 (2009) containing:
- Modernity Britain, 1957–62 (2014) containing:
- Opening the Box, 1957–59
- A Shake of the Dice, 1959–62
Should one review the portmanteau volume – Austerity Britain (692 pages long in its current Bloomsbury paperback edition) – or the two ‘books’ it contains? I’ve chosen the latter option, because each of the ‘books’ is so dense and packed with information that they require separate posts.
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