T.E. Lawrence: Synopsis Why did ‘Lawrence of Arabia’, at the height of his fame, decide to become a virtual recluse? Was it because of some trauma that he had sustained during the First World War? The story of T.E. Lawrence's inner struggle against the demons that tormented him, together with...
Agatha Christie: The Disappearing Novelist
Agatha Christie: Synopsis Not for nothing has Agatha Christie been called the ‘Queen of Crime’. Yet, her own life presented one of the greatest mysteries of all, because for 11 days in the year 1926 she disappeared, without trace, from her Berkshire home. Some said that she had staged her...
Thomas Hardy at Max Gate: The Latter Years
Thomas Hardy at Max Gate: Synopsis ‘Max Gate’ is a large house on the outskirts Dorchester which Dorset poet and novelist Thomas Hardy designed himself, and being an intensely private person, he surrounded it with a thick screen of trees. In this house, Hardy continued to write his novels including...
Thomas Hardy: Bockhampton and Beyond
Thomas Hardy: Synopsis Devotees of Thomas Hardy, not only in his native county of Dorset but worldwide, are fortunate in that the cottage in which he was born and grew up still exists, and is lovingly maintained by the National Trust.‘Hardy’s Cottage’ is set in an idyllic landscape of forest...