Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Derek Tangye

Born: February 29, 1912
Died: October 26, 1996 (aged 84)
Bio: Derek Alan Trevithick Tangye was a British author who lived in Cornwall for nearly fifty years.
Known for:
- The story of the Minack chronicles (1994)
- Jeannie A Love Story (1941)
- A gull on the roof (1961)
- A Cat in the Window (1962)
- Somewhere a Cat Is Waiting (1976)