Newspapermen: Observer review by Peter Preston

A hurtling journey, often hilarious and sometimes monstrous, through newspapers, class, politics and sex; not just the double biography of two extraordinary men, but a sideways history of Britain in the fifties and sixties

Andrew Marr

The Omagh families have not only held terrorists to account for the death of their loved ones; their legacy is a new legal remedy for victims of violence everywhere.

Liam Clark

Sunday Times

Ruth Dudley Edwards has adorned with anecdotal dazzle a psychological thriller in which intrigue is flecked with madness.

Edward Pearce

Glasgow Herald

A thoroughly entertaining book.

Michael Davie

Times Literary Supplement