Adrian Tinniswood

Adrian Tinniswood, OBE FSA, is a true chronicler of the country houses of the UK and Ireland, having published nineteen books on social and architectural history. His many acclaimed titles include The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars, a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, and The Verneys: a True Story of Love, War and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England, which was shortlisted for the BBC/Samuel Johnson Prize. Adrian is currently Professor of British Cultural History at the University of Buckingham. He lives in County Mayo. His latest book The Houses of Guinness: The Lives, Homes and Fortunesof the Great Brewing Dynasty was published by Scala in November 2025.