Hardback. 320pp. Colour frontis and illustrations throughout, many in colour. Guardian first book award winner in 2010.Considers: W. H. Auden, Agatha Christie, John Betjeman, Elizbath Bowen, Powell and Pressburger, John Piper, Paul Nash, Eric Ravilious, T. S. Eliot, Geoffrey Grigson, Virginia Woolf, Evelyn Waugh and the themes of art, architecture, poetry, fiction, gardens, etc. Few faint marks to closed page edges else very clean bright and neat.