Valerie Grove

Mayfair Lady

Marriages are Made in Bond Street: True Stories from a 1940s Marriage Bureau

By Penrose Halson

Jeremy Lewis

Plumped Pages

The New Yorker Book of the 50s: Story of a Decade

By Henry Finder (ed)

Richard Cobb

I Remember It Well

Playing For Time

By Jeremy Lewis

Colin Wilson

The Author Has Not Yet Read My Masterpiece

Success Stories: Literature and the Media in England, 1950-1959

By Harry Ritchie

Katharine Whitehorn

The Revolution’s Near

Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s

By Virginia Nicholson

Christopher Coker

A Sour War

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

By David Halberstam

Peter McDonald

Firbank, Bellini and Rare Steak

W H Auden: Prose, Volume III – 1949–1955

By Edward Mendelson (ed)

Michael Barber

Comic Cuts

Eagle Annual: The Best of the 1950s Comic

By Daniel Tatarsky (ed)

The Complete Peanuts: Volume 1 1950–52, Volume 2 1953–54

By Charles M Schulz

David Kynaston

East End Chronicles

Call the Midwife

By Jennifer Worth

Family and Kinship in East London

By Michael Young and Peter Willmott

Katherine Whitehorn

Escaping the Mad Men

The Fifties Mystique

By Jessica Mann

Anne Sebba

Housewives & Heroines

Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties

By Rachel Cooke