Shopping, Seduction & Mr Selfridge, By Lindy Woodhead

After Westminster Abbey and the Tower of London, Harry Selfridge boasted, his Selfridge's department store was the third biggest tourist attraction in London. His magnificent "cathedral of shopping" opened in 1909, and this biography – of Selfridge, of the early 20th century and of the legacy of consumerism they helped to create – serves as a fitting tribute as it approaches its 100th anniversary.

Selfridge transformed the way we shop – but died in poverty in Putney, saddled with gambling debts and cut off from his baby after a boardroom coup. His creation weathered financial storms before. Will the great theatre of shopping do so again?

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