The Long Weekend

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I can’t remember where I heard about this book. It was on my long Amazon wish list for a while, until one Christmas a few years back when Leo, my son, chose it as my present. Since then it’s sat in my bookshelf waiting patiently to be read until it found its way onto my 2026 interwar reading list. It’s a survey of aristocratic British country house life between the wars, so an obvious choice. By the time I got around to reading it, Leo had long forgotten giving it to me and was surprised when I told him he was the original purchaser. I don’t know much about Adrian Tinniswood the author. Wikipedia tells me he is professor of history at the University of Buckingham and a trustee of the National Trust. He is a prolific author and has written books on Christopher Wren, The Royal Society, and architecture, but he specialises in the British aristocracy and their houses. This is the second book I’ve read this year titled “The Long Weekend”. He freely admits that he borrowed the title from the Robert Graves book. It’s a large format paperback with lots of pictures, published in 2016.

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The Long Weekend