Clive Aslet is an award-winning writer and journalist, acknowledged as a leading authority on Britain and its way of life. He joined the magazine Country Life in 1977 and was Editor for 13 years. After publishing his first novel The Birdcage in 2014 (see video clip), he left to spend more time writing fiction. He has now finished a second novel, The Elephant’s Balls, and is at work on a third. Clive’s other books include The Edwardian Country House (2012), a reprise, completely redesigned and freshly illustrated, of his first book, The Last Country Houses, which was published in 1982. He has also written on country houses of the American Gilded Age, on British identity, on the countryside and on the House of Lords. Lady Antonia Fraser, reviewing Landmarks of Britain, published in 2005, called it ‘a brilliant, far-ranging enterprise’. Jenny Uglow wrote that his book, The English House, ‘is a thorough treat’: Clive is ‘the perfect guide’ to the subject, ‘combining long experience with a light touch.’