Description
Book SynopsisHarry Mount is the author of
Amo, Amas, Amat and All That, his best-selling book on Latin, and
A Lust for Window Sills -
A Guide to British Buildings. A journalist for many newspapers and magazines, he has been a New York correspondent and a leader writer for the
Daily Telegraph. He studied classics and history at Oxford, and architectural history at the Courtauld Institute. He lives in north London.
Trade ReviewA lovely book, very engaging and easy to read. There are chapters on weather and soil and stone, on the history of hedges or the making of suburbia, all of them infectious did-you-knows. Mount is a natural and enthusiastic sharer of knowledge * Evening Standard *
Charming and nerdily fact-stuffed * Guardian *
Lively, a delight. Mount's paragraphs explode with information . . . I love all this, want more, and am given it. The sort of book, in its temperament and in its detail, that has helped to make England English * Spectator *
Mount is as perceptive as he is obsessive, and time and again he skewers with unfailing accuracy some aspect of our national character * Mail on Sunday *
'Fascinating. Mount's an intelligent, funny and always interesting companion * Daily Mail *
