Addictively readable . . . Kynaston's tireless research turns up plenty of gs' Dominic Sandbrook,Sunday Timesbr'A breathtaking array of treasures'TLSbr'Magisterial'Financial Timesbr‘Here is an intricate tapestry that conveys the essence of time’Literary ReviewbrbrHow much can change in less than two and a half years? In the case of Britain in the Sixties, the answer is: almost everything. From the seismic coming of the Beatles to a sex scandal that rocked the Tory government to the arrival at No 10 of Harold Wilson, a prime minister utterly different from his Old Etonian predecessors.brbrA Northern Wind, the keenly anticipated next instalment of David Kynaston’s acclaimedTales of a New Jerusaleries, brings to vivid life the period between October 1962 and February 1965. Drawing upon an unparalleled array of diaries, newspapers and first-hand recollections, Kynaston’s masterful storytelling refreshes familiar events – the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Big Freeze, the assassination of JFK, the funeral of Winston Churchill – while revealing in all their variety the experiences of the people living through this history.brbrMajor thes complent the compelling narrative: an anti-Establishment mood epitomised by the BBC’s controversialThat Was The Week That Was; a welfare state only slowly becoming more responsive to the individual needs of its users; and the rise of consumer culture, as Habitat arrived and shopping centres like Birmingham’s Bull Ring proliferated. Multi-voiced, multi-dimensional and immersive,Tales of a New Jerusalhas transformed how we see and understand post-war Britain.A Northern Windcontinues the journey.