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About Derek Tangye
- Derek Alan Trevithick Tangye (29 February 1912 – 26 October 1996) was a British author who lived in Cornwall for nearly fifty years.
- He wrote nineteen books which became known as The Minack Chronicles, about his simple life on a clifftop daffodil farm called Dorminack, affectionately referred to as Minack, at St Buryan in the far west of Cornwall with his wife Jeannie (Jean Everald Nicol).
- The couple had given up sophisticated metropolitan lives, he as a newspaper columnist (during the war years he had worked for MI5) and she as a hotel PR executive, to live in isolation in a simple cottage surrounded by their beloved animals, which featured in nearly all his works.
- He had two older brothers Nigel Tangye who was also an author and Colin Tangye, a Lloyds Underwriter.
- Their father was Richard Trevithick Gilbertstone Tangye, in turn the son of the engineer Richard Tangye.
- The first of The Minack Chronicles was A Gull on the Roof published in 1961.
- This was followed by a new book almost every two years.
- The Way to Minack, the sixth book in the series details the path they took to be at Minack, while a Cottage on a Cliff gives an account of the author's time with MI5.
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