Mark Bostridge

Dark days for Britain: London, Burning, by Anthony Quinn, reviewed

The National Front reaches its peak of popularity as IRA bombs terrorise the capital in this disturbing novel set in the late 1970s

The wreckage of Airey Neave’s car after the IRA bomb which killed him. Credit: Alamy

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