“How lucky for Trevor-Roper, and for us, that the ideal biographer was here. It is impossible to praise Sisman's book too highly.” A.N. Wilson, Observer

“This is a fine and serious biography which, on page after page, has made me laugh out loud.” Noel Malcolm Sunday Telegraph

“A wonderfully absorbing book.” Alan Bennett

“I was completely beguiled.” D. J. Taylor, New Statesman

“A veritable treasure trove for connoisseurs of academic intrigue, duplicity, arrogance and hubris.” Tom Devine, Glasgow Herald