Toad Hall (The Wind in the Willows) Toad Hall (The Wind in the Willows) Toad Hall is the fictional home of Mr. Toad, a character in the 1908 novel, "The Wind in the Willows", by Kenneth Grahame. On his retirement from the Bank of England in 1908, Grahame returned to Blewbury in Berkshire, the county in which he had grown up. In October that year he published "The Wind in the Willows", a novel for children featuring an array of anthropomorphic characters, including Rat (a water vole), Mole, Badger and Toad. Toad lives in a house on the edge of the River Bank, Toad Hall. The novel
Jason Matthews (novelist) Jennifer Lawrence. In 2015 and 2018, he published "Palace of Treason" and "The Kremlin’s Candidate" which are the sequel of "Red Sparrow". Jason Matthews (novelist) Jason Matthews (born 1951) is the author of the "Red Sparrow" spy novel trilogy. Prior to becoming a novelist, Matthews spent 33 years working for the CIA. In 2014, his first novel, "Red Sparrow" (2013), won an Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author. Writer and critic Art Taylor praised it in "The Washington Post", writing that it "isn't just a fast-paced thriller — it’s a first-rate novel as noteworthy for its