Well this is most gratifying. Next month I shall be returning to the Royal Automobile Club on Pall Mall, where I carried out so much of the research, and where the book was launched.
The Club’s Motoring Book of the Year awards are being held there on 28 October, and my Whitney Straight book has been shortlisted in the ‘motorsport title under £30’ category.
The Royal Automobile Club’s Pall Mall clubhouse library was the perfect location for the book launch. I spent many weeks there, maybe even months, poring over books and 1930s magazines, and that lovely long room, lined with oak book shelves and with open fires at each end, is quite literally my favourite room in London.