Crash Bang Wallop

Iain Martin tells it brilliantly, mixing fury-inducing narrative with an acute eye for the broader conclusion. - Observer

Fascinating … it is worth raising your eyes from the Brexit mud-slinging to read a new book on the history of the “Big Bang” financial reform …UK politicians should take heed of Martin’s book. - Financial Times

An exciting story, told with verve - Sunday Business Post

With a journalist’s eye for a good tale and a narrative style that rips along, Martin has turned an unloved part of British history about an unloved industry into a fascinating yarn. - The Times

As historical accounts of modern finance go, this is a corker. - Breaking Views Reuters

For anyone interested in finance . . . this is a readable history of how the City became the world’s money hub. - Sunday Times

Highly readable and well-informed - The National

It is refreshing to read this lively account of a series of actions that add up to one of the undoubted, if not undisputed, successes of modern government action … a timely reminder of how the City of London got to where it is now - New Statesman