I thought my book about Victorian architecture had bombed. I found no reviews of it at the time, apart from a rather sniffy one by an ‘architectural historian’. (He didn’t like my pictures.) Then today I suddenly found a small raft of them quoted by the publishers who eventually took over the book – the original publisher was dreadful – in their catalogue. Not good enough to make it anyone’s ‘Book of the Year’ (2011), but not at all bad.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-battle-of-the-styles-9781441174734/