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Which children’s novel featuring talking animals was inspired by this property?
The Sheep-Pig by Dick King-Smith
The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
Charlotte’s Web by EB White
Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl
Whose tales of amorous country life often feature a fictionalised version of her own home?
Jilly Cooper
Barbara Cartland
Jenny Colgan
Katie Fforde
This hut inspired the verse of which poet?
Philip Larkin
Dylan Thomas
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Purple Ronnie
Which classic children’s novel was inspired by this stately home in Kent?
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
Peter Pan by JM Barrie
Five Children and It by E Nesbit
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Which speculative fiction master lived in this sunny California home?
Philip K Dick
Ray Bradbury
Kurt Vonnegut
HP Lovecraft
Who is currently writing their memoir in this purpose-built 'luxury hut'?
Brad Pitt
Nigel Farage
David Cameron
Philip Roth
Which of Stephen King’s horror novels was inspired by, and indeed written in, this Maine house?
Pet Sematary
Misery
Carrie
Salem’s Lot
Which dystopian classic was imagined here?
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
World War Z by Max Brooks
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Which of Enid Blyton’s series were set in and around her home here?
The Secret Seven
The Famous Five
Noddy
The Mystery series
Which reclusive author retreated here?
Thomas Pynchon
JK Rowling
Harper Lee
JD Salinger
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