Dinner with Joseph Johnson

<p><strong>*Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize*</strong><br /><br /><strong>In late eighteenth-century London, a group of extraordinary people gathered around a dining table once a week.</strong><br /><br />The host was Joseph Johnson, publisher and bookseller and he was joined at dinner by a shifting constellation of great minds including William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Henry Fuseli, Anna Barbauld and Mary Wollstonecraft.<br /><br />Johnson's years as a maker of books saw profound change in Britain and abroad. In this remarkable portrait of a revolutionary age, Daisy Hay captures a changing nation through the stories of the men and women who wrote it into being, and whose ideas still influence us today.<br /><br /><strong>'Rich in period and personal detail' <em>Guardian</em><br /><br />'Hugely engrossing' <em>Sunday Times</em></strong></p>