Brian Masters

The prank that grew to giant proportions

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  • The Man Who Lost Himself

    Robyn Annear

    Constable & Robinson, pp. 416

The story has been told dozens of times already, but never gets dull, and until the 1996 McDonald’s libel case there had not been a longer saga played out in any English court. From 1867 the Tichborne claimant dominated conversation for years, and people openly despaired they might die before a verdict was reached.

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