NOVEL HOUSES: TWENTY FAMOUS FICTIONAL DWELLINGS

A combination of literary criticism, geography and biography, this is an entertaining and insightful celebration of much-loved novels and the extraordinary role that houses grand and small, imagined and real, unique and ordinary, play in their continuing popularity. From Uncle Tom's Cabin to 221B Baker Street, from Gormenghast to Howard's End, each chapter shows how the house is key to the story and what personal significance it had for the author.