House of Fiction

Phyllis Richardson has written several books on architecture and design, including the highly successful XS series, Nano House and Superlight. She has written on architecture, urban development and travel for the Financial Times, the Observer and DWELL magazine. She is currently the co-ordinator of the Foundation Year in English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London.

‘A lively tour of fictional property’ The Times, Books of the Year ‘A fascinating tour of real and literary bricks and mortar ... [Richardson’s] research is formidable. Her book does much more, though, than track real architectural detail in made-up houses. It reveals key imaginative shifts in British authors’ attitudes to homes over the years’ Sunday Times 'The real houses that haunt English fiction' Guardian