Cambridge Balls by Dafydd Jones, at Heffers Bookshop

Heffers is delighted to be welcoming Jones for an evening celebrating his phenomenal new book chronicling Cambridge University's illustrious May Balls. Come along on Tuesday 11th of June for a peek behind the colleges' walls at the academic year's most luxuriously raucous moments.

Cambridge Balls is the sensational new book by bestselling society photographer Dafydd Jones. The Cambridge University colleges are renowned for many great alumni and important achievements… and also a series of marathon all-night parties, known as the May Balls, held annually to celebrate the end of the academic year. Dafydd Jones, who according to The New York Times, ‘goes about his business with cheery zest and a wicked eye’, has been granted unique access to this hidden world of revelry since 1981, during which the author of England: The Last Hurrah and Hollywood Confidential has captured an extraordinary tableau of antics and shenanigans now beautifully reproduced on these pages. From former British Prime Minister David Cameron in his Bullingdon coat to victorious rowing teams celebrating into the night, from gate crashers punting across the river to the more international student groups of modern times toasting their successes, this is a fascinating portrait of jubilation among the young, the wealthy and the academic elites of one of the world’s most famous universities.

Dafydd Jones is a renowned and bestselling society photographer. Winning a 1981 photoghraphy prize with a collection photographing 'The Bright Young Things', he was then hired by Tina Brown to photograph balls, Debutante parties and weddings for Tatler magazine. He has been a contracted photographer for numerous publications, and is the author of England: The Last Hurrah, Hollywood Confidential, New York: High Life / Low Life, and other works.

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