Gillian Tindall

Who is Gillian Tindall?

Gillian Tindall is a British writer. Among her better-known works are City of Gold: Biography of Bombay and Celestine: Voices from a French Village. Her novel Fly Away Home won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1972.

Since the 1970s she has lived in Kentish Town, in North London. Her book The Fields Beneath is about the history of the area.

Tindall's book The House by the Thames is about the house built at 49 Bankside in London in 1710 and the buildings that preceded it on the site. The house has served as a home for coal merchants, an office, a boarding house, a hangout for derelicts and once again as a private residence in the 1900s. It may have been the home of Sir Christopher Wren during the construction of St Paul's Cathedral, and the residents of older buildings on the site may have included Catherine of Aragon and William Shakespeare.

Another work of her : "The Journey of Martin Nadaud. A Life And Turbulent Times." St. Martin's Press, 10th of August 2000 - 320 pages. Miniaturist history that reconstructs the life and voyage of an ordinary French man from the “Creuse”, a master stone mason-builder, that became a little known French political figure, revolutionary and a Member of the French Parliament. Martin Nadaud, was exiled from France after the failure of the 1848 Revolution, and lived for eighteen years in England, where he became also a schoolmaster at Wimbledon, in a school directed by John Brackenbury and at that time preparatory to the military.. In his period of schoolmastership at Wimbledon, to hide his real identity, Nadaud assumed the name of Henri Geo. Martin. In 1870 Martin Nadaud made his final triumphant return to his homeland France. Publicly, his life was finally crowned with success. But on a private level Nadaud suffered griefs and losses that would leave lasting marks on the man. Examining family letters and personal papers that have lain unread for the last hundred years, Gillian Tindall has constructed a moving and compelling portrait of a hard working social and republican man and his turbulent times in France, Paris and in England.