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Ronald Blythe

Ronald Blythe CBE is considered one of the greatest writers on the English countryside. His work, which has won countless awards, includes Akenfield (a Penguin 20th Century Classic and a feature film). In 2006 he was awarded the Royal Society of Literature’s prestigious Benson Medal. His many columns for the Church Times, collected in ten volumes, described life at his home of Bottengoms Farm, Suffolk, where he lived and worked until his death in early 2023.

Next to Nature

Next to Nature

A Lifetime in the English Countryside

Hardback

£25.00

Next to Nature

Next to Nature

A Lifetime in the English Countryside

Paperback

£12.99

View in Winter

View in Winter

Reflections on Old Age

Ronald Blythe asks people from all walks of life to reflect in their own words on what it is like to be old. The result is a fascinating and moving series of confidences which we are privileged to share.

Paperback / softback

£14.99

Talking to the Neighbours

Talking to the Neighbours

Conversations in a Country Parish

These reflections weave together literature, poetry, biography, botany, nature and scripture to offer incisive comment on contemporary life. Resonating with the pattern of the natural and litugical year, it provides a commentary on experiencing the...

Paperback / softback

£10.99

Out of the Valley (Wormingford Series 2)

Out of the Valley (Wormingford Series 2)

Another Year at Wormingford

An illustrated collection of the author's regular weekly column on the back page of the "Church Times", where, with a poet's eye, he observes the comings and goings of the rural world he sees from his ancient farmhouse in Constable country.

Paperback

£10.99

Word from Wormingford (Wormingford Series 1)

Word from Wormingford (Wormingford Series 1)

A Parish Year

An illustrated collection of the author's regular weekly column on the back page of the "Church Times", where, with a poet's eye, he observes the comings and goings of the rural world he sees from his ancient farmhouse in Constable country.

Paperback

£10.99

Outsiders: A Book of Garden Friends

Outsiders: A Book of Garden Friends

The ‘quiet wit, keen observation and sober reflection’ of Ronald Blythe’s work has delighted readers for almost 40 years. Where Field Work brought together a selection of his best loved essays, literary and topographical, this book celebrates a...

Hardback

£20.00

Aftermath: Selected Writings 1960-2010

Aftermath: Selected Writings 1960-2010

The publication of Aftermath celebrates Ronald Blythe’s unique achievement. Over the last 50 years his gentle, eloquent voice has spoken to us of the countryside, and the literature it has inspired, latterly from his farmhouse on the Suffolk/Essex...

Hardback

£18.99

At the Yeoman's House

At the Yeoman's House

When in 1947 the young writer Ronald Blythe first visited Bottengoms Farm on the Essex-Suffolk border, the ancient house of the artists John and Christine Nash, he could not have guessed that this would in time become his own home and the centre of...

Hardback

£15.00

Village Hours (Wormingford Series 7)

Village Hours (Wormingford Series 7)

Britain's best loved rural writer chronicles the progress of the seasons in the Stour valley village where he has lived and worked among artists, writers, farmers and commuters. For all the changes in the contemporary countryside, timeless qualities...

Hardback

£14.99

ePUB

£11.99

Akenfield

Akenfield

Paperback / softback

£9.99

Under a Broad Sky (Wormingford Series 8)

Under a Broad Sky (Wormingford Series 8)

With reverence and love, Britain's most admired rural writer chronicles daily life in the Stour valley village, finding beauty and significance in its sheer ordinariness as well as in its many literary, artistic and historic associations.

Hardback

£14.99

ePUB

£14.99

Word from Wormingford (Wormingford Series 1)

Word from Wormingford (Wormingford Series 1)

A Parish Year

An illustrated collection of the author's regular weekly column on the back page of the "Church Times", where, with a poet's eye, he observes the comings and goings of the rural world he sees from his ancient farmhouse in Constable country.

Hardback

£14.99

The View in Winter

The View in Winter

Reflections on Old Age

Ronald Blythe asks people from all walks of life to reflect in their own words on what it is like to be old. The result is a fascinating and moving series of confidences which we are privileged to share.

Hardback

£19.99

In the Artist's Garden (Wormingford Series 9)

In the Artist's Garden (Wormingford Series 9)

A Wormingford Journal

Ronald Blythe inherited an ancient farmhouse and garden in a fold of the Stour valley in Constable country. As the garden evolves through the year, Ronald Blythe celebrates the gifts of each season in this ninth collection of columns, blending...

Hardback

£14.99

Stour Seasons (Wormingford Series 10)

Stour Seasons (Wormingford Series 10)

A Wormingford Book of Days

Stour Seasons is the tenth collection of Word From Wormingford columns. Britain's greatest living rural writer observes in rich detail the gifts that each season of the year brings and in doing so, evokes a world of beauty, friendship and wonder at...

Hardback

£14.99

ePUB

£11.99

A Year at Bottengoms Farm (Wormingford Series 4)

A Year at Bottengoms Farm (Wormingford Series 4)

Ronald Blythe, Dr. Ronald Blythe

Features a collection of sixty "Word From Wormingford" columns from the back page of the "Church Times", published in the autumn of 2006. This work presents mini essays that reflect the natural landscape, the changing seasons, village life, art,...

Paperback

£10.99

River Diary (Wormingford Series 5)

River Diary (Wormingford Series 5)

Ronald Blythe, Dr. Ronald Blythe

Sees Ronald Blythe observe the progress of one whole calendar year in the river valley where he has lived and worked among artists, writers, farmers and, increasingly, commuters.

Hardback

£14.99

ePUB

£12.99

The Bookman's Tale (Wormingford Series 6)

The Bookman's Tale (Wormingford Series 6)

Ronald Blythe, Dr. Ronald Blythe

Ronald Blythe has spent his life among the artists and writers of his native Suffolk. His books, especially the bestselling "Akenfield", have given East Anglia a distinctive literary voice. This book accompanies Ronald through the lanes of Constable...

Hardback

£14.99

ePUB

£12.99

Borderland (Wormingford Series 3)

Borderland (Wormingford Series 3)

Continuity and Change in the Countryside

Ronald Blythe, Dr. Ronald Blythe

An illustrated collection of the author's regular weekly column on the back page of the "Church Times", where, with a poet's eye, he observes the comings and goings of the rural world he sees from his ancient farmhouse in Constable country.

Paperback

£10.99

Time by the Sea

Time by the Sea

Aldeburgh 1956-1958

Dr Dr Ronald Blythe

Hardback

£15.99

A Priest to the Temple or the Country Parson

A Priest to the Temple or the Country Parson

With Selected Poems

Ronald Blythe, George Herbert

Written at a time of notoriously lax standards in the Church of England, George Herbert's essay on the calling and work of a parish priest remains fresh and full of wisdom for all who are pursuing this vocation today.

Hardback

£12.99

The Circling Year

The Circling Year

Perspectives from a Country Parish

Ronald Blythe, Robin Tanner

This collection of words spoken by Ronald Blythe in the churches he served as Reader in the Church of England follow various paths into old and new liturgies, literature and the local countryside. Blythe's prose is full of quiet wit, keen...

Paperback / softback

£10.99

Time by the Sea

Time by the Sea

Aldeburgh 1955-1958

Dr Dr Ronald Blythe

Paperback / softback

£10.99

The Circling Year

The Circling Year

Perspectives from a Country Parish

Ronald Blythe, Robin Tanner

This collection of words spoken by Ronald Blythe in the churches he served as Reader in the Church of England follow various paths into old and new liturgies, literature and the local countryside. Blythe's prose is full of quiet wit, keen...

Hardback

£16.99

Oaken Heart

Oaken Heart

The Story of an English Village at War

Margery Allingham, Dr. Ronald Blythe, Julia Jones

Paperback / softback

£14.99

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