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Authors: Dr Ronald Blythe
In a long and distinguished career Ronald Blythe’s work includes
Akenfield
, his classic study of English village life, poetry, fiction, essays, short stories, history and literary criticism. His work has been filmed, widely translated, awarded literary prizes and his ‘voice’ recognised as one of special originality. Blythe is President of the John Clare Society and has always taken part in the cultural life of his native countryside. He lives in the Stour Valley in the farmhouse that was once the home of his friend John Nash.
The Age of Illusion
William Hazlitt: Selected Writings
Akenfield
The View in Winter
Writing in a War
From the Headlands
Divine Landscapes
Private Words
Aldeburgh Anthology
Going to Meet George
Talking about John Clare
First Friends
Field Work: Collected Essays
A Writer’s Day-book
The Circling Year
Talking to the Neighbours
Aftermath: Selected Writings 1960–2010
The Word from Wormingford series
FICTION
A Treasonable Growth
Immediate Possession
The Assassin
First published in 2013
by Faber and Faber Ltd
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This ebook edition first published in 2013
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