Books by Timothy Mowl

Timothy Mowl has written revisionist biographies of Horace Walpole (1996) and William Beckford (1998), and academic studies on Elizabethan and Jacobean style, Inigo Jones and John Wood the Elder in the same questioning spirit. The two books which have led him to this present analysis of the tensions between John Betjeman and Nikolaus Pevsner were The Sack of Bath - And After (1989), co-written with Adam Fergusson, and Cheltenham Betrayed (1995). Both concerned the defence of places threatened by the pervasive British uncertainly on all matters of architectural style and urban values.