Seasons in the Sun: Britain, 1974-1979

Dominic Sandbrook's magnificent account of the late 1970s in Britain

Overview

The late 1970s were Britain's years of strife and the good life. They saw inflation, riots, and the peak of trade union power—but also the birth of home computers, the rise of the ready meal, and the triumph of a Grantham grocer's daughter who would change everything. Dominic Sandbrook recreates this extraordinary period in all its chaos and contradiction, revealing it as a turning point in our recent history, where, in everything from families and schools to punk and Doctor Who, the future of the nation was being decided.

Praise for Seasons in the Sun

Mail on Sunday
"Magnificent ... if you lived through the late Seventies - or, for that matter, even if you didn't - don't miss this book."

Stephen Robinson, Sunday Times
"Sandbrook has created a specific style of narrative history, blending high politics, social change and popular culture ... always readable and assured ... [A] splendid book."

Gerard DeGroot, Seven
"[Sandbrook] has a remarkable ability to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse. His subject is depressing, but the book itself is a joy ... Sandbrook is, without doubt, superb ... Seasons in the Sun is a familiar story, yet seldom has it been told with such verve."

A. N. Wilson, Spectator
"A brilliant historian ... I had never fully appreciated what a truly horrible period it was until reading Sandbrook."

Damian Whitworth, The Times
"Nuanced ... Sandbrook has rummaged deep into the cultural life of the era to remind us how rich it was, from Bowie to Dennis Potter, Martin Amis to William Golding."

Evening Standard
"Sharply and fluently written ... entertaining ... By making you quite nostalgic for the present, Sandbrook has done a public service."

Series Information

Part of: History of Modern Britain (3 books)