John Martin Robinson is an architectural historian who has written numerous books on Georgian architecture and heraldry. Grass Seed in June is an autobiography of his early years up to the point he began working for the GLC. We are taken from rural Lancashire to Oxford, via a Catholic boarding school in the Highlands, an Italian castle and numerous German monasteries.
The book is slim but packed with fascinating anecdote. The author is never afraid of being politically incorrect or of making his disdain for post Vatican II Catholicism known, but the general tone is one enthusiasm for the people and places he loves which rendered in his detailed, yet concise, descriptions.