One of the most prominent coastal houses in Cornwall, with a significant literary history, sitting elevated and proud with panoramic sea views. Read more
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Jane Austen’s Family Home in Hampshire is For Sale
Steventon House in Hampshire, the home that replaced the original building where many of Austen’s most famous novels were written, is now on the market for nearly $10.5 million. Read more
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Home of Late Writer Virginia Woolf Lists for £3.5 Million
The celebrated writer and her husband, Leonard, moved into Hogarth House in 1915, when the outer London town—the only one located on both sides of the River Thames—was still a part of Surrey (it became part of London in 1965). Two years later, they founded Hogarth Press by purchasing a small hand press and some second-hard typeface, according to the Richmond government website. The press published a total of 32 books between 1917 to 1924, when the couple moved to another London residence. Read more
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Mick Herron Wins Crime Novel of the Year Award for Slough House
Mick Herron has won the Theakston Old Peculier crime novel of the year award, after his fifth time being shortlisted in six years. Herron won the award for Slough House, the seventh instalment in his series of the same name, which follows a band of failed spies. In the book, a new populist movement is taking hold on London’s streets, and the spies find themselves on the run in the aftermath of a blunder by the Russian secret service that left a British citizen dead. The series was recently turned into an Apple TV+ show starring Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas. Read more
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Maddie Mortimer wins the Desmond Elliott prize for Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
The ‘sprawling and ambitious’ debut centres on the author’s relationship with her mother, who died of cancer in 2010. Read more
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Barbara Cartland’s Former Home For Sale
Four bedroom riverside cottage plus three bedroom annex. Private mooring. £1,000,000. Read more
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Former Ambleside home of Lakes poet William Wordsworth for sale for £3 million
Dating back to the 17th Century, Iving Howe at Little Langdale is up for sale for £3.25 million. The five-bedroom was passed through generations of the Wordsworth family until 1921. It comes with four bathrooms and 16 acres of gardens and woodland. Read more
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A truly stunning country house once owned by Thomas Wyatt, the poet who invented the English sonnet
The Grade II-listed, 14,075sq ft house was initially launched on the market three years ago, and relaunched last week by Strutt & Parker at a guide price of £10m — some £2.5m less than the price in 2019. It’s hard to call a house with an eight-figure price tag a ‘bargain’, of course; but that is a hefty discount indeed, especially for such a beautiful place that’s so close to London. Read more
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Waterstones acquires Blackwell’s, the UK’s biggest independent bookseller
The UK’s largest book chain, Waterstones, has acquired the country’s largest independent bookseller, Blackwell’s, ending 143 years of family ownership and signalling a further concentration of the bookselling industry. Read more
Grace Nichols’ ‘pioneering voice’ wins her Queen’s gold medal for poetry
The Guyanese poet Grace Nichols will be awarded the Queen’s gold medal for poetry for her body of work, in particular her first collection of poetry I Is a Long-Memoried Woman, her prose, and several books for younger readers. Read more
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