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Havering-atte-Bower

In Chapter 61 there is a reference to Lord Cecil Facey's estate at Havering-atte-Bower and Adrian Drewe's marriage at the church. ...

The Corn Doll

Chapter 31 of the book is an interlude chapter introducing the reader to Arthur Poley and his son George. I had a discussion with my...

The Man of Property

John Galsworthy's novel was published in 1906 and in my novel Christian Drewe is reading it when he returns from Austria. I wanted to pay...

The Villa Grazioli

The Villa Grazioli is a palace in Frascati, near Rome, where Cardinal Antonio Carafa once lived. In the novel Celia says that she stayed...

A Lesson in Taste You Might Say

In the novel Edwin Lutyens proposes to add a Tuscan pillar into Sir Julius Drewe's bathroom when Sir Julius threatens to remove the west...

The Only Car Lutyens Ever Owned

In Elizabeth Wilhide’s book, Sir Edwin Lutyens: Designing in the English Tradition, she notes that the only car that Lutyens ever owned...

Love, thought Emily, is the one thing that can be the ruin of a young lady, as she knew herself.

The novel hints at a love affair that the young Emily Lutyens (nee Bulwer-Lytton) may have had. There is no name mentioned in the final...

Stone of Remembrance

The War Graves Commission wrote: "This ‘great altar stone’ as Lutyens’ referred to it, would stand as a memorial feature in the...

What's In A Name

Why did I change some names and not others? Actually, it is a difficult question to answer. If you are writing a book about the last...

Of All Faiths & None - Welcome to my Story

The Beginnings Once upon a time I woke up and realised I did not want to be a lawyer for the rest of my life. I first started writing...

Castle Drogo

When Edwin Lutyens was asked to design a castle for Sir Julius Drewe, he commented: "I do wish he didn't want a castle but just a...

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Jiddu Krishnamurti (or K) was born on 11 May 1895 and died on 17 February 1986. He became a figure head for the Order of the Star in...

Appointment in Samarra

The story of the 'Appointment in Samarra' appears in various versions in the Talmud and in narrative form in the 1933 play, Sheppey, by...