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The Classic “John Murray” Travel Collection
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Susan Chitty and her husband, Thomas Hinde (his pen name) have been writing side by side for fifty years. Susan’s first work of fiction, The Diary of a Fashion Model’, was serialised by Punch then published as a book in 1958. She then wrote three novels and many acclaimed biographies. She is now working on a biography of the poet and children’s writer, Eleanor Farjeon. Horses had always been her passion. As a small child she believed she was a horse. Thomas's first novel, Mr Nicholas (1952), was described in the Herald Tribune as ‘the best first novel (with one exception) ever written by a novelist of his age.’ Since then he has written some 14 novels, and his new one, In Time of Plague, was accepted this Christmas. Susan and Thomas have always been passionate travellers. When they left Nairobi they drove to Capetown in a dilapidated Landrover with their first two children, Andrew and Cordelia. In America they travelled for a whole long vacation from the Atlantic to the Pacific and then up the west coast. But southern Europe has always been their passion and they have travelled many times in Spain, Italy and Greece as well as Turkey and Hungary. For a time they lived in a ruined farmhouse in Tuscany. In 1973 Thomas edited an anthology of writing about Spain. (1973).
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