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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in the grass and caught there like a piece of sheep's wool, was the last I saw of my country home as I left it to discover the world' Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring an ...Show more
Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Vintage classics
Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, this memoir is about the authors childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. It also depicts a world that is both immediate and real and belongs to a now-distan ...Show more
Collected Poems by Laurie Lee
$39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A landmark new collection of poems from the author of Cider with Rosie Laurie Lee is beloved for his writing on a lost rural world. His evocative poetry springs from his deep connection with nature, as he tracks the seasons changing and the years turning over. Yet Lee's poems also captured war, human re ...Show more
Down in the Valley: A Writer's Landscape by Laurie Lee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A moving portrait of the landscape that shaped the life of Laurie Lee, the beloved author of Cider With Rosie 'Before I left the valley I thought everywhere was like this. Then I went away for 40 years and when I came back I realized that nowhere was like this.' Laurie Lee walked out of his childhood ...Show more
Red Sky at Sunrise: Cider with Rosie, as I Walked out One Midsummer Morning, a Moment of War by Laurie Lee
$42.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This is a beautiful new edition of Laurie Lee's celebrated autobiographical trilogy: Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning and A Moment of War. 'I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.' ...Show more
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