Manx Writers
A number of successful novelists have found the Isle of Man's peace, quiet and - more recently - beneficial tax laws, an ideal environment for writing, although surprisingly few base their actual stories on the Island itself. The most famous to do so was the naturalised Manxman SIR HALL CAINE (1853-1931) who sold over ten million novels, translated into twenty languages, and whose book 'The Manxman' was used as the basis for the last silent movie made by Alfred Hitchcock.