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NEIL ANSELL lives in Brighton with his two daughters. He is also the author of Deep Country (Penguin 2011), which was described by The Independent as ‘extraordinary’, The Wall Street Journal as…

JOCELYN BROOKE (1908-1966) was born in Sandgate, Kent. Unhappy at school in Canterbury, he ran away twice before being sent to Bedales. After publishing a collection of poetry in 1927, he dropped…

KENNETH ALLSOP (1920 - 1973) was born in Leeds and left school aged 17 to join the Slough Observer. He joined the RAF during the Second World War but left the service…

H.E. BATES (1905 - 1974) was born in Rushden, Northamptonshire, where he spent much of his youth wandering the footpaths of the surrounding countryside, often at night. After leaving school he worked…

FRANK FRASER DARLING (1903 - 1979) was born in a farm stable near Chesterfield. Aged 15 he ran away from school and worked in the Pennines. At agricultural college he met ‘Bobbie’…

W.N.P. BARBELLION (1889 - 1919) was the pen name chosen by Bruce Frederick Cummings, the youngest of six children born and raised in Barnstaple, Devon, where his mother ran a sweetshop and…

ADRIAN BELL (1901 - 1980) was born in Lancashire, grew up in London, and was educated at Uppingham School. Poor health kept him from university, and in 1920 he apprenticed himself to…