Description
About the Author
H.E. Bates was born in 1905 at Rushden in Northamptonshire and was educated at Kettering Grammar School. He worked as a journalist and clerk on a local newspaper before publishing his first book after which he quickly acquired a reputation for his stories about English country life. During the World War II, he was a squadron leader in the R.A.F. and was commissioned to write stories about service life, which he published under the pseudonym of 'Flying Officer X'. In 1958 the Larkin family appeared for the first time in The Darling Buds of May, the first of the enduringly popular Larkin family novels. Bates was awarded the C.B.E. in 1973 and died in 1974.
Reviews
"'Few writers have a more exact feel for texture - of a flower, a face, a silence - and it is this that has value,' Spectator"
Book Information
ISBN 9780413775993
Author H E Bates
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Methuen Publishing Ltd
Publisher Methuen Publishing Ltd
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 18mm