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256 pages. Book and Jacket are both Brand New. This Is A Unique Exploration Of The Great Return To The Countryside, And The Often Weird Surrealism Of Village Life.
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A wonderful writer. -- New Statesman
A wonderful writer: droll, poignant and dreamy. -- Andrew Martin, New Statesman
Informed, poignant and delightfully humorous - to dip into time and again. -- Best of British magazine, December 2002
Rogers' account of the thunder of a single Roman legion...made me hear the terrifying studded feet for the first time. -- Jane Gardam, Spectator, 7 December 2002
These whimsical tales fuse fascinating historical detail with exquisitely colourful insights. The kind of book you can pick up at any time. -- Naomi Snelling, One Wales magazine, Winter 2002
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When Byron Rogers moved to the village of Blakesley in the heart of Northamptonshire, quitting the city for the country was still a comparatively rare move - nowadays it is everyone's dream. Over the years his "Village Voice" column in the Daily Telegraph has observed his village's gradual evolution from a place where people lived from birth unto death, working in the surrounding fields, to a dormitory haven for car-borne commuters. Now, as his many weekly readers requested, his humorous chronicle of an English village appears in book form, the sequel to his previous collection, "An Audience with an Elephant". Here, then, is the Methodist chapel that became a car showroom, the village's charabanc outing to the seaside, the strange story of the ancient church in the fields, the summer fete at which the author bought his neighbour's shirts, his elevation to heady civic responsibility as Warden of the Paths, and the pathos of the commemoration of life lived amidst the most English of landscapes, the book should appeal to anyone who even dreams of leaving the metropolis behind.
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- PublisherAurum Press
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1854108824
- ISBN 13 9781854108821
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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