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
Jonathan Smith (novelist) Following Game", published in 2011. His first novel "Wilfred and Eileen" was adapted for BBC television into a four-part serial. He also wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of his 1995 novel "Summer in February", starring Dominic Cooper, Emily Browning and Dan Stevens, which was released in June 2013. His latest novel The Churchill Secret KBO has been adapted for a feature-length movie starring Michael Gambon to be screened around Christmas 2015 on ITV. Over twenty plays including: Jonathan Smith (novelist) Jonathan Smith (born 1942) is an English novelist, writer and teacher. A career English teacher, he is best