Heart of England: Contributions to the Evening Standard, 1939-1941

Henry Williamson (1895-1977) , nature writer and novelist, is perhaps best remembered today as the author of the much-loved classics Tarka the Otter and Salar the Salmon, although he wrote over fifty books during a long life, including The Flax of Dream tetralogy and his major work, the 15-volume novel sequence A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. In 1937 he took over a derelict farm in North Norfolk. Written originally as a way of paying off unexpectedly high bills during his early years of farming - 'There was one thing for it: to pay off the debts by writing', he wrote in his farming classic The Story of a Norfolk Farm (1941) - these beautifully written articles, 33 of them, set in both Norfolk and Devon, are counterpointed and given immediacy by the inclusion of the evening's headlines after each article, depicting the deteriorating international situation, and the outbreak and early days of the Second World War. Illustrated with photographs.