Green Lane to Nowhere
When Byron Rogers moved to the village of Blakesley, quitting the city for the country was for many people a way of escaping change: nowadays we can see how they brought change with them. Over the years, in his 'Village Voice’ column in The Sunday Telegraph, he observed his village’s gradual evolution from a place where everyone knew everyone else into a dormitory haven for car-borne commuters. Now, as his many weekly readers requested, his idiosyncratic and personal chronicle of an English village is collected in this book. Here, then, are the stories of how the Methodist chapel became a car showroom, the village’s first-ever charabanc outi…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78131-031-1
- EAN: 9781781310311
- Produktnummer: 14842863
- Verlag: Aurum Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 0 KB
Über den Autor
Byron Rogers is a Welsh journalist, essayist and biographer. He has contributed to The Times, the Sunday Telegraph and the Guardian, and was once a speech writer for the Prince of Wales. He is also author of seven books published by Aurum, including: An Audience With an Elephant, one of several collections of his journalism; The Man Who Went into the West, a critically acclaimed biography of the iconic twentieth century Welsh poet, R. S. Thomas, which was awarded the James Tait Black Prize for Biography in 2007; and The Last Englishman, a biography of the quintessential Englishman and celebrated novelist J.L. Carr. Me: The Authorised Biography, was published in 2009. His most recent book is Three Journeys. He currently lives in Northamptonshire and Carmarthen.
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