TALES OF LEGAL BATTLES BEHIND THE LITERARY STORY ON THE BARCLAY TWINS

Here were legal pressures and warnings at many stages of her research on the story of how the twins rose from poverty to become proprietors of the Telegraph and the Spectator.

Martinson -  former Guardian Media Editor,  now columnist and Professor of Financial Journalism at City University -  was talking at the second literary evening to be held by the Stationers and London Press Club at L’Escargot’s Snail Club in Greek Street.

Her book “You may never see us again: The Barclay Dynasty” has recently been published in paperback after a successful launch.

It chronicles how the Barclay twins, with almost no formal education, built first a property then a hotel business, before becoming proprietors of two of the most prestigious titles in British media:

Martinson was interviewed by Stationers’ Upper Warden and Press Club chairman Doug Wills at the event which was held in association between the Stationers “lunch time literary group” and London Press Club.

In October, the Stationers and  Press Club held a literary evening when London Standard editor Dylan Jones spoke about his recently published memoir “These Foolish Things”.