This essay is the introduction to Akenfield by Ronald Blythe. The new edition is out now from NYRB Classics. First published in 1969, Ronald Blythe’s Akenfield is an enormously vivid and affecting ...

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A classic book exploring agricultural life in Suffolk is being adapted into "something really beautiful" for the stage. Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village, written by the Suffolk author Ronald ...

Craig Taylor grew up in the west coast of Canada but came to Suffolk to write a follow up to Ronald Blythe's 1969 novel Akenfield. The fictional village based on Charsfield, the surrounding area and ...

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The author of Akenfield, the much-loved portrayal of Suffolk village life, today celebrates his 100th birthday – with an appeal for the world to ‘slow down’. Ronald Blythe’s book became a surprise ...

In 1969, Ronald Blythe published a work of non-fiction which he thought would be received as an unassuming social history; a snapshot of life in a small, unexceptional Suffolk village. Much to his ...

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The biographer of Ronald Blythe, the author of Akenfield who has died aged 100, has told how the writer’s ability to form relationships was affected by being gay at a time when homosexuality was ...

In 1969, the filmmaker Philip Trevelyan was introduced to the Page family. The father – a widower known locally as “Oily Page” – had worked in aircraft engineering but at the time Trevelyan met him, ...

Akenfield chronicled the lives of people in a fictional rural Suffolk village A film depicting the rural lives of Suffolk villagers in the 20th Century is being digitised to bring it to a "wider ...

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter The biographer of Ronald ...