Racy and entertaining... never less than page-turning.

The disclosure will intrigue followers of a historical whodunnit which has fascinated scholars down the ages.

A lively study of neighbourly relations.

A fine book packed with generosity, rivalry, misbehaviour, snobbery, love, murder and politics.

I enjoyed Cockayne's book immediately

This curtain-twitching account is bottom-up history at its breezy best

A great read

An entirely delightful history of neighbour relations since the Middle Ages

A brisk but impressively comprehensive survey.

A very detailed historical survey of the upside and the downside of neighbouring since about 1300.

A great insight into how our homes and communities have grown and changed.

Original, humorously historical and wittily anecdotal.

This intriguing social history charts the concept of neighbours through British history in thorough detail

Informative but fun, with an important message about society, Cockayne’s history is a human one, with all the heartache and joy that entails

This lively social history documents nine centuries of disputes, noise levels, wartime camaraderie and carparking issues. Fascinating

Relishable

The avowed aim of this fascinating history of neighbours is to explore the delicate balance between people’s determination to protect their privacy and their simultaneous wish to cultivate contact with those who live close by

Mishra allows the reader to see the events of two centuries anew, through the eyes of the journalists, poets, radicals and charismatics who criss-crossed Europe and Asia

A vital, nuanced argument ... prodigious