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Black Dog Books has just published a wonderful new edition of Sylvia Townsend Warner's Somerset . This originally appeared in 1949 as one of the Vision of England series. Sylvia said of it, "Since I am constitutionally incapable of resembling a guide, an err-and-stray book would be nearer my measure." The reader is taken on a journey through the county's most beautiful scenery. Bath and Wells and the great Ham stone houses are among the highlights but STW is just as good on Somerset churches, its barns and cottages and the craftsmen who built them. She has a particular affinity for the willowy landscape of Sedgemoor and Glastonbury 's legendary Tor and is equally at home with the Romantic poets on the Quantocks.
This new edition is illustrated with a selection of 64 stunning black and white photographs by several eminent photographers, including Edwin Smith, Patrick Sutherland and Chris Willoughby.
To order your copy of this delightful book for £17.99 (inc p&p) contact Black Dog books at 104, Trinity Street , Norwich , NR2 2BJ , 01603 623771 or email:
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Dorset Stories
by Sylvia Townsend Warner,
with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone
(published by Black Dog Books, price £15.99)
The writer Sylvia Townsend Warner spent the best years of her life in Dorset from the time she first moved to Chaldon Herring in 1927 to her death in 1978. Although none of her seven novels are set in the county a good number of the many short stories that first appeared in The New Yorker have a strong Dorset flavour. She was attracted to Chaldon by the presence of the novelist T. F. Powys and the influence of his quirky allegorical style is clearly discernible in her own early output.
It was here too that she met Valentine Ackland, her life-long companion, and ten years later the couple moved to a house beside the river at Frome Vauchurch on the outskirts of Maiden Newton. Most of the stories are set here or in Dorchester (Dumbridge) during the war years. Warner’s characters come from all walks of village life and are wryly observed in stories that are at once elegant, original and witty.
Collected together for the first time Dorset Stories contains a number previously unpublished and many others long out of print. Beautifully illustrated with wood engravings by her Litton Cheney friend Reynolds Stone, they are Dorset ‘to the life’.
Dorset Stories is a 272 page hardback (155 x 233) published by Black Dog Books with 16 wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. Price £15.99. ISBN 0-9549286-3-6 This volume is now sold out. |
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