Diamond Street: The Hidden World of Hatton Garden

‘Lichtenstein has brought alive something of London… how one street can be a kind of Tardis, a portal to another…

‘A fascinating examination of the area’s famously insular diamond trade… the great joy of Lichtenstein’s books is that she encourages…

‘A sparkling oral history of the tiny, secretive world of Hatton Garden… Lichtenstein proves to be both an indefatigable explorer…

‘Pursuing her quest for the essence of the place… she creates a syncopated momentum that shifts between the personal perspective…

‘Rachel Lichtenstein has written the story of Hatton Garden as a kind of three-dimensional hologram in which she excavates what…

‘The oral historian Rachel Lichtenstein, one of the few prominent female figures operating within the fuzzily defined field of contemporary…

‘As a transcriber of enthused and warm-hearted interviews, Lichtenstein strikes a tone somewhere between the Victorian Henry Mayhew and 20th…

‘Diamond Street is a brilliant and moving book, intricate in its form and fabulous in its curiosity. It is poised…