teased him that it was "deliciously convoluted"; Boston and Knox both echo this view. But Beaverbrook's right-hand man, George Malcolm Thompson, said of Lancaster, "The annoying thing at the Express was that he was not only the only one who could draw; he could also write better than anyone in the building." Lancaster's most enduring works have been his architectural books. Pillar to Post and its successors have been reissued in various editions, and at 2018 are in print as a boxed set entitled Cartoons, Columns and Curlicues, containing Pillar to Post, Homes Sweet Homes and Drayneflete Revealed. Reviewing the new edition in The Irish Times, Niall McGarrigle wrote, "The books are of their time, of course, but their legacy is part of the strong heritage culture that we rightly fight for today". Alan Powers wrote in The Financial Times, "At least old buildings are now cherished rather better, and the house fronts around Lancaster's birthplace in Notting Hill are jollied up in his favourite pinks and mauves... now we understand that the compact streets and houses of the past provide the best opportunity for social encounters and save energy, and that even bad buildings can make us smile. For both of these revelations, we owe Osbert Lancaster a lot." Books by Lancaster Autobiography Architecture Published in the US 1950 by Houghton and Mifflin, under the title There'll Always be a Drayneflete. Revised and expanded omnibus version of Pillar to Post and Homes Sweet Homes. Reissued 1975 as A Cartoon History of Architecture. Boxed set containing reprints of Pillar to Post, Homes Sweet Homes and Drayneflete Revealed. Cartoon collections Other (co-written with Anne Scott-James) Omnibus edition of The Saracen's Head, Drayneflete Revealed and The Littlehampton Bequest. Reissued by Pimlico Press, 1992, . Stage designs by Lancaster Pineapple Poll, Sadler's Wells, 1951 Bonne bouche, Covent Garden, 1952 Love in a Village, English Opera Group, 1952 High Spirits, Hippodrome, 1953 The Rake's Progress, Edinburgh (for Glyndebourne), 1953 All's Well That Ends Well, Old Vic, 1953 Don Pasquale, Sadler's Wells, 1954 Coppélia, Covent Garden, 1954 Napoli, Festival Ballet, 1954 Falstaff, Edinburgh (for Glyndebourne), 1955 Hotel Paradiso, Winter Garden, 1956 Zuleika, Saville, 1957 L'italiana in Algeri, Glyndebourne, 1957 Tiresias, English Opera Group, 1958 Candide, Saville, 1959 La fille mal gardée, Covent Garden, 1960 She Stoops to Conquer, Old Vic, 1960 La pietra del paragone, Glyndebourne, 1964 Peter Grimes, Bulgarian National Opera, Sofia, 1964 L'heure