The House By The Thames

Mesmeric… This book is not just for London enthusiasts. Tindall has demonstrated a genius for a certain kind of social history that, in shining a light on one small place, illuminated a huge amount around… A rare instance of a history book that, in its optimism about the indomitable spirit of the place, raises the hairs on the back of your neck. – Sinclair McKay * Sunday Telegraph *
Fascinating… Gillian Tindall brilliantly deploys contemporary observations to bring the centuries alive. – Christopher Howse * Tablet *
Delightful… Tindall’s story is truthful and unexaggerated, combining elegantly elegiac prose with imaginative empathy and descriptive power. – Jessica Mann * Literary Review *

Gillian Tindall is a master of miniaturist history, well known for the quality of her writing and the scrupulousness of her research; she makes a handful of people, a few locations or a dramatic event stand for the much larger picture, as her seminal book The Fields Beneath, approached the history of Kentish Town, London. She has also written on London’s Southbank (The House by the Thames), on southern English counties (Three Houses, Many Lives), and the Left Bank (Footprints in Paris), amongst other locations, as well as biography and prize-winning novels. Her latest book, The Tunnel through Time, traced the history of the Crossrail route, the forthcoming ‘Elizabeth’ line. She has lived in the same London house for over fifty years.

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