Highgate School: A history

by Thomas Hinde

145 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Sir Thomas Willes Chitty, 3rd Baronet better known by his pen name Thomas Hinde, was a British novelist. He wrote under the name Hinde to avoid upsetting his father with his much acclaimed first novel.

His first novel, Mr Nicholas, was published in 1953. His second, Happy As Larry, the story of a disaffected, unemployable, aspiring writer with a failed marriage, led critics to associate him with the Angry Young Men movement. An excerpt from Happy As Larry appeared in the popular paperback anthology, Protest: The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men.

Hinde published thirteen further novels before turning to non-fiction. After 1980, he also published books on English stately homes and gardens, English court life, and the forests of Britain, as well as histories of English schools.

Reviews

[J. Boo]

Thomas Hinde -- pen name of Sir Thomas Willes Chitty, 3rd Baronet -- was a novelist who later moved into non-fiction. He seems to have a produced a number of histories of British schools, this being one of them. Flagging for further investigation.