Our attention turns to all things literary this week after the return of the Hay Festival. It comes during a bumper year for book sales, when lockdown encouraged many of us to read more and escape our repetitive reality for fictional worlds.
But what of the authors’ own abodes? Here we look at five homes for sale with links to literary greats.
Agatha Christie – Winterbrook House
The Queen of Crime bought this five-bedroom house in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan in 1934 and lived there until her death in 1976, taking inspiration for her popular detective fiction from her surroundings. ‘She wrote some of her bestselling novels in the house and Winterbrook itself is thought to have been the model for Danemead – Miss Marple’s house in the village of St Mary Mead,’ says Stephen Christie-Miller (no relation), head of residential sales at Savills Henley. The house is on the market for offers in excess of £2.
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