Lighting the Furnace – The Story of a Burning Ambition by Sir Hugh Sykes.
This is at once the remarkable life story of a man who, from modest beginnings, became one of the UK's most successful businessmen, but far more besides... it is the private portrait of a very public figure. It chronicles the reshaping of a city, in which he was instrumental.
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