The best pub crawl ever.

An amiable crawl in search of London's greatest pubs and their extraordinary history. 50 of the capital's finest boozers feature in this beautifully illustrated little guide by a man who tours them for a living.

The historic pubs that make Britain great.

Grant skilfully weaves her vast knowledge of 18th-century English history and the complex story of a large family into a fluent narrative... It's the intertwining in their lives of the radical and the typical, the ordinary and the extraordinary which Grant's book so beautifully reveals

The Good Sharps offers readers a unique and poignant perspective from which to consider the Georgina period

A beguiling biography of a prominent eighteenth-century family... Hester Grant's deeply researched historical biography has timely resonance in its focus on Granville Sharp... Grant charts his actions with flair and authority...[a] fine book

The incredible true story of one very gifted family... The little-known story of seven siblings from Durham who changed late Georgian London society for the better

The author's balanced prose is ideally suited to her imaginative and delicate reconstruction of the past... This is a quietly ambitious book, impeccably researched and full of interest

Ian Mortimer manages to inform and delight in equal measure

Enthralling and detailed

A fascinating and involving angle on history

Words of contemporaries including Pepys, Mariner Edward Barlow and Celia Fiennes bring to life the changes of the period

Irreverent, witty and beautifully democratic, this is a delight.

A superb period to read about… Mortimer describes London brilliantly with its old walls and teeming streets.

History at its most entertaining.

Intriguing, informative and entertaining.

An engaging book that can be read with pleasure