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
Harpist in the Wind land heir suddenly becomes aware of everything in his or her kingdom, or in the entire realm. "Harpist in the Wind" was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1980. Harpist in the Wind Harpist in the Wind is a 1979 fantasy novel by American writer Patricia A. McKillip. It is the concluding book of the Riddle Master Trilogy, the first two books being "The Riddle-Master of Hed" and "Heir of Sea and Fire". All three books were collected into the volume "Riddle-Master: The Complete Trilogy" in 1999. The first UK paperback edition precedes the first US paperback.