Julian Hall (1907-1974) was educated at Eton and Oxford. He was the author of four books, three of them novels -
Laura Seaborne, The Senior Commoner and
Two Exiles
- all published in the 1930s
. During the Second World War he worked in military intelligence. After the war he worked with the BBC Home Talks. Later he wrote theatre and sometimes film reviews but never published another novel.
Philip Larkin's favourite novel? That might be an exaggeration but it is one that not only exercised a lasting fascination for him but was also an influence on his own novel writing. Larkin famously wrote about it in a 1982 Spectator article (republished in Required Writing) under...
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