{"product_id":"9781803993607-scandal-at-dolphin-square","title":"Scandal at Dolphin Square","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Notorious History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first book to tell the scandal-filled story of Dolphin Square, the UK's most notorious address\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eA rollicking romp.\u003c\/em\u003e’\u003c\/strong\u003e – \u003cem\u003eMail On Sunday\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘Compelling, authoritative and as readable as the best airport thriller. It fizzes with crime, fame, power and illicit sex.’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e – Jeremy Vine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘A timely and important book. It’s quite remarkable how one building has played host to such debauchery. If only the walls could talk…’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e – Iain Dale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDesigned as a city dwelling for the modern age, Dolphin Square opened in London’s Pimlico in 1936.\u003c\/strong\u003e Boasting 1,250 hi-tech flats, a swimming pool, restaurant, gardens and shopping arcade, the complex quickly attracted a long list of the affluent and influential. But behind its veneer of respectability, the Square has become one of the country’s most notorious addresses; a place where the private lives of those from the highest of high society and the lowest depths of the underworld have collided and played out over the best part of a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of the Square and its people, an ever-evolving cast of larger-than- life characters who have borne witness to, and played pivotal roles in, some of the most scandalous episodes of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. \u003cstrong\u003eFrom Oswald Mosley and the \u003cem\u003eCarry On\u003c\/em\u003e gang to allegations of systematic sexual abuse, it is a saga replete with mysterious deaths, exploitation, espionage, illicit love affairs and glamour, shining a light on the changing nature of British politics and society in the modern age.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40886315024481,"sku":"9781803993607","price":13.03,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_30140948.jpg?v=1726732623","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781803993607-scandal-at-dolphin-square","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}