BOOKS - PRINCIPAL NON-FICTION TITLES 

  • Living Tradition: The Architecture and Urbanism of Hugh Petter (Triglyph Books) 2023

  • Old Parkland: Community, Architecture and the American Ideal (Triglyph Books) 2022

  • The Story of the Country House (Yale University Press) 2021

  • Building Beautiful: Classical Houses (with John Simpson; Rizzoli) 2021

  • The Real Crown Jewels of England (Little Brown) 2020

  • Old Homes, New Life: the Resurgence of the British Country House (with Dylan Thomas; Triglyph Books) 2020

  • The Age of Empire: Britain’s Imperial Architecture (Aurum) 2015

  • 1000 Ways of Seeing. The Private Collection of the Late Stanley J.Seeger. Introduction (Sotheby’s) 2014

  • Strands of History: Northbank Revealed (Wild Research) 2014

  • An Exuberant Catalogue of Dreams: The Americans who Revived the Country House in Britain (Aurum) 2013.

  • The Edwardian Country House (Frances Lincoln) 2012

  • War Memorial: The Story of One Village’s Sacrifice from 1914 to 2003 (Viking, Penguin) 2012

  • The Arts and Crafts Country House: From the Archives of Country Life (Aurum) 2011

  • Villages of Britain: The Five Hundred Places that Made Our History (Bloomsbury) 2010

  • The English House (Bloomsbury) 2008

  • The Landmarks of Britain (Hodder and Stoughton) 2005

  • A Horse in the Country: A Diary of a Year in the Heart of England (Fourth Estate) 2001

  • The Story of Greenwich (Fourth Estate) 1999

  • Chateau de Groussay (Introduction; Sotheby’s & Poulain-Le Fur 2) Paris, 1999

  • Inside the House of Lords (with Derry Moore; HarperCollins) 1998

  • Anyone for England? (Little Brown) 1997

  • Countryblast: Your Countryside Needs You Now (John Murray Publishers Ltd.) 1991

  • The American Country House (Yale University Press) 1990

  • Quinlan Terry, The Revival of Architecture ( Viking) 1986

  • The National Trust book of the English house (Viking) 1985

  • Enchanted Forest: The Story of Stansted in Sussex (with Frederick Ponsonby; Weidenfeld & Nicolson) 1984

  • A History of Elveden (Christie’s) 1984.

  • The Last Country Houses (Yale University Press) 1982

BOOKS - NOVELS 

  • The Birdcage (Cumulus) 2014. (Sandstone Press) 2016