Awards

• Long-listed for CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2023 (UK)

Overview

The first book to tell the scandal-filled story of Dolphin Square, the UK's most notorious address. In 1937 Dolphin Square was built in London's Pimlico, a major development offering 1,250 flats to well-to-do private individuals. From the outset, it attracted the great and the good - in particular, a long roll-call of Members of Parliament and celebrities. It was perhaps inevitable that scandal would follow not far behind. In fact, in less than a century Dolphin Square has established itself as arguably the most notorious address in the country. This, then, is the story of the Square - not of its topography, but of its people, an extraordinary array of characters who have borne witness to and been pivotal in some of the most scandalous episodes in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It is a story replete with mysterious deaths, espionage, illicit love affairs, glamour, politics and scandal - from Oswald Moseley, the Carry On gang and Profumo, to allegations of VIP sexual abuse rings. A saga of colour and shade, populated by a cast of Dickens-esque larger-than-life characters, that shines a light on the evolving nature of British politics and society over the last century. AUTHORS: Simon Danczuk is the former MP for Rochdale and co-author of the bestselling Smile for the Camera: The Double Life of Cyril Smith (Biteback, 2014) and has written extensively for the national press. Daniel Smith is the author of the acclaimed The Peer and the Gangster (THP, 2020). 20 b/w illustrations

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Compelling, authoritative and as readable as the best airport thriller. It fizzes with crime, fame, power and illicit sex. -- Jeremy Vine A timely and important book. It's quite remarkable how one building has played host to such debauchery. If only the walls could talk... -- Iain Dale

Compelling, authoritative and as readable as the best airport thriller. It fizzes with crime, fame, power and illicit sex. -- Jeremy Vine A timely and important book. It’s quite remarkable how one building has played host to such debauchery. If only the walls could talk… -- Iain Dale Danczuk and Smith’s entertaining history zips along, teeming with tales of espionage, crime, politics, scandals and lots of sex. The tenants of Dolphin Square include an extraordinary cast of well-known characters – royalty and party leaders; celebrity actors and star entertainers; the eccentric and the exotic. But the Square also has its darker side – as home to spies, secret lovers and paedophiles. -- Michael Crick

Compelling, authoritative and as readable as the best airport thriller. It fizzes with crime, fame, power and illicit sex. -- Jeremy Vine A timely and important book. It's quite remarkable how one building has played host to such debauchery. If only the walls could talk... -- Iain Dale Danczuk and Smith's entertaining history zips along, teeming with tales of espionage, crime, politics, scandals and lots of sex. The tenants of Dolphin Square include an extraordinary cast of well-known characters - royalty and party leaders; celebrity actors and star entertainers; the eccentric and the exotic. But the Square also has its darker side - as home to spies, secret lovers and paedophiles. -- Michael Crick

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Simon Danczuk is the former MP for Rochdale and co-author of the bestselling Smile for the Camera: The Double Life of Cyril Smith (Biteback, 2014) and has written extensively for the national press. Daniel Smith is the author of the acclaimed The Peer and the Gangster (THP, 2020).

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