A novel of ambition, about a man who rises from the most humble of beginnings in Manchester and reaches the very top in politics.

New paperback edition of Howard Spring's bestselling title, first published in 1940.

The tragedy of the novel rests not just in the arc it traces from the heroic era of the proletariat in Peterloo to the midnight of the twentieth century, but in the missed encounters and lost possibilities embodied in every Hamer Shawcross' TLS.