- Published: 4 January 2011
- ISBN: 9781446402474
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 480
His Invention So Fertile
Formats & editions
- Published: 4 January 2011
- ISBN: 9781446402474
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 480
This lively, sympathetic and hugely informative biography brings us closer to Wren than ever before
Frances Spalding, Independent
Cleanly written, diligently researched and powered by an engrossing passion for its subject
Andrew Motion, Financial Times
Adrian Tinniswood is undaunted by the breadth of Wren's career and has written a fine, well-balanced biography
Michael Prodger, Sunday Telegraph
Lively, knowledgeable, affectionate...[a] fine biography
Jenny Uglow, Sunday Times
This work is by no means a conventional architectural history. But then Christopher Wren was by no means a conventional architect
Peter J.M. Wayne, Spectator
A fresh, lively and readable biography of our best-known architect
Hugh Massingberd, Mail on Sunday
Thorough, informative, clear
Rowan Moore, Evening Standard
Fascinating
David Bradbury, Daily Mail
The most engaging non-fiction I've come across recently
Jeremy Paxman, Observer