'An astonishing work, of meticulous research, which allows us to know, in painful detail, the men and women on that fateful voyage. Even now, a hundred years later, Mr Davenport-Hines finds a new, and heart-breaking, story to tell., Julian Fellowes 'Eloquent and absorbing... As well as being a fascinating work of social history, Titanic Lives is a remarkable study of empathy and its absence., Frances Wilson, Daily Telegraph 'Though it seems shameful to admit it, the one certain benefit we have derived from the tragedy is a shattering human story that is also, when told as well as Davenport-Hines tells it, utterly compelling., John Carey, Sunday Times '[A] gripping study ... the author paints a richly atmospheric portrait of an age when class consciousness was at its apogee., Literary Review

Richard Davenport-Hines won the Wolfson Prize for History for his first book, 'Dudley Docker,. He is an adviser to the 'Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and has also written biographies of W.H. Auden and Marcel Proust. His most recent book, 'Ettie, the Intimate Life of Lady Desborough, was published in 2008. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Literature, he reviews for the Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Times and the Times Literary Supplement.