Primarily a gothic tale – a psychological whodunnit – mysterious events unfolding within an isolated stately home – but also a fictional account of one of the most dreaded of family situations – and alongside the drama, thoughts about marriage and society, and a glimpse into the truth in all its bewildering philosophical perplexity. This is a tale of mounting suspense progressing unhurriedly toward a climax of stark horror – you cannot put this one down!

A science fiction novel set  centuries from now. One of Earth’s more distant colonies invades the mother planet and sets up an elitist regime. Over the course of the next two generations, the trend towards democracy re-emerges. At the same time, the reader is gradually initiated into a new concept for religion. There is much in this novel which can be taken as comment upon contemporary anxiety and events.

The sale of Luptree court takes place in a glare of publicity, for it isn’t often that one of Britain’s truest and bluest of families shuts up shop – a superbly   funny and satirical fantasy-novel which shows, through one fictional family, what has happened  to England’s aristocratic establishment since the First World War. Three generations give a vividly amusing and often moving account of high and low life in a great aristocratic family.

Educated at Eton and Oxford, Alexander Thynn spent three years as an art student in Paris. He has painted large scale murals at Longleat House. He plays the guitar and has written poems and songs. He has stood as Wessex Regionalist candidate for English and European Parliament and is married to Anna Gael with whom he has two children.