The explosive new book from Britain’s leading investigative biographer,
Tom Bower
As one of the most famous and influential couples in the world, David and
Victoria Beckham have attained iconic status. The ultimate power couple have
together built a multi-billion-dollar global brand. For decades, adoring fans
have been captivated by the glamorous world they have created, while their
unrivalled fusion of showbiz, fashion, football and celebrity has been
cultivated alongside the image of a strong marriage.
When the much-trailed Netflix documentary Beckham aired in 2023, viewers were offered an even more intimate insight into their private lives. Produced by the Beckhams themselves, the series raised many questions, not only about their success and personal relationship, but also about the ruthlessly successful management of their image in the media. Are their lives really as perfect as the Beckhams would like the world to believe?
Through extensive research, expert sourcing and interviews with insiders, Britain’s most celebrated investigative biographer, Tom Bower, has unearthed a succession of revelations that give surprising insight into the reality of ‘Brand Beckham’. Exploring the couple’s relationship, and the truth about their football and fashion careers, their finances and their new life in Miami, The House of Beckham unravels the extraordinary reality of the business-savvy cultural icons to tell an engrossing, often astonishing story of money, sex and power.
About the Author:
Tom Bower is the author of twenty-three best-selling books. In the late 1950s he
travelled to communist Czechoslovakia, and while a student at the LSE he was
known as ‘Tommy the Red’. As a journalist, between 1969 and the fall of the
Berlin Wall in 1990 he travelled across communist East Germany and spent much
of his time during the 1970s reporting for BBC TV with British strikers,
especially the miners led by Arthur Scargill. In 1989 he worked for three years
in Russia, interviewing high-ranking Soviet intelligence officers who played the
spy game against the West. He reported wars from Vietnam, the Middle East and
South America, where he encountered hard-left idealists and latterday
commissars. Bower's experience of myriad wars, elections, corrupt politicians
and shady businessmen cured him of his Marxism, but not of his curiosity and
innate scepticism. Dangerous Hero is the latest of his many bestselling and
critically acclaimed books.
