Title: Landor's tower, or, The imaginary conversations
First published: 2001
Description: A writer, who has lived for years in London, reluctantly acknowledges his growing obsession with the Ewyas Valley on the border of England and Wales. Commissioned to write about Walter Savage Landor's disastrous attempt to set up a senatorial estate around Llanthony Abbey, he is sidetracked by more recent conspiracies: a bizarre series of twenty-seven suicides in the secret defence industries and unreliable witnesses who claim to have uncovered the truth about the Thorpe case.
Subjects: Fiction, Biographers, Conspiracies, Communal living, Appreciation, Travelers, Psychiatric hospital patients, Suicide, City and town life
Places: Wales, London (England)
People: Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)
LC classification: PR6069.I525 L36 2001