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A Treasonable Growth by Ronald Blythe
Category: Fiction
"A Treasonable Growth" was Ronald Blythe's first book and only novel. It is set in Aldeburgh, Suffolk shortly before the Second World War. Ronald Blythe himself has described it as his 'Forsterian novel' and even admits to going for walks with E. M. Forster while working on the novel 'although I never m ...Show more
Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by Ronald Blythe, Dr
Category: History
Woven from the words of the inhabitants of a small Suffolk village in the 1960s, " Akenfield" is a masterpieceof twentieth-century English literature, a scrupulously observed and deeply affecting portrait of a place and people and a now vanished way of life. Ronald Blythe s wonderful book raises endurin ...Show more
Akenfield : Portrait of an English village by Ronald Blythe
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Akenfield Ronald Blythe - Author ?9.99 Buy now View basket This book is currently out of stock Please email me when this book is available to buy Book: Paperback | 129 x 198mm | 288 pages | ISBN 0141187921 | 28 Jul 2005 | Penguin Classic This colourful, perceptive portrayal of English country life rever ...Show more
Next to Nature - A Lifetime in the English Countryside by Ronald Blythe
Category: Animals & Nature
, 'One of the great prose stylists on the twentieth century . . . a modern Hazlitt' Mark Cocker 'England's greatest living country writer' INDEPENDENT Ronald Blythe lives at the end of an overgrown farm track deep in the rolling countryside of the Stour Valley, on the border between Suffolk and Essex. ...Show more
Next to Nature: A Lifetime in the English Countryside by Ronald Blythe
Category: Gardening Landscape Plants
'All the charm, wonder, eccentricity and vigour of country life is here in these pages, and told with such engaging directness, detail and colour. To immerse yourself in this East Anglian year is be reminded of why we love and value the rhythms and realities of rural life. Bliss' STEPHEN FRY'A capacious ...Show more
The Time by the Sea: Aldeburgh, 1955-1958 by Ronald Blythe
Category: History
The Time by the Sea is about Ronald Blythe's life in Aldeburgh during the 1950s. He had originally come to the Suffolk coast as an aspiring young writer, but found himself drawn into Benjamin Britten's circle and began working for the Aldeburgh Festival. Although befriended by Imogen Holst and by E M Fo ...Show more
The Time by the Sea: Aldeburgh, 1955-1958 by Ronald Blythe
Category: Biography Memoir
The Time by the Sea is about Ronald Blythe's life in Aldeburgh during the 1950s. He had originally come to the Suffolk coast as an aspiring young writer, but found himself drawn into Benjamin Britten's circle and began working for the Aldeburgh Festival. Although befriended by Imogen Holst and by E M Fo ...Show more
Voices of Akenfield by Ronald Blythe
Category: Travel | Series: English Journeys
Born and brought up in rural Suffolk, Ronald Blythe was fascinated by the rhythms of country life and the stories of the people he had known since childhood. In this perceptive and moving evocation of his home, the villagers speak candidly about their lives, from the reminiscences of survivors of the Fi ...Show more
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