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This biography takes the reader from Betjeman's troubled childhood in north London, through his blossoming at Oxford, a gay fling with W. H. Auden, a clandestine marriage to a field marshal's daughter, pranks as a film critic, wartime service and probable espionage in Ireland, to the glory days of his later years when his Collected Poems became a runaway bestseller. This book is a distillation of Bevis Hillier's three-volume biography, authori...

Traces the history of the two hundred year old London business noted for the style and craftsmanship of its dressing cases, furniture, silverware, trophi and silver models.

95 illustrations and 104 poems, from the extremely funny to the most rarefied, about collectors and collecting antiquities and antiques.