'England's greatest living country writer' INDEPENDENT - As the celebrated author of Akenfield, Ronald Blythe, turns 100 this year, Next to Nature brings together a seasonal collection from the very best of a lifetime of writing von...

A new collection and a sixth volume in the much loved Wormingford series, THE BOOKMAN'S TALE reveals a year in a writer's life. Here is an intimate portrait of both the exterior and interior worlds of Britain's finest rural writer. von...