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Hope Bourne has been described as one of the finest writers about the British countryside in the 20th century. Her work published in her lifetime invariably included some supporting line drawings and full-colour works for the covers. This text gives the opportunity to view Hope Bourne and her achievements through the media of her paintbox and her pencil.
The Telegraph’s obituaries pages are renowned for their quality of writing and capacity to distil the essence of a life from its most extraordinary moments. A unique mix of heroism, ingenuity, infamy and the bizarre, Thinker, Failure, Soldier, Jailer collects the very best of those obituaries to present an endlessly absorbing compendium of human endeavour. Organised day by day around the calendar year, with each life presented on the date it ended, the book features hundreds of remarkable stories. World statesmen jostle with glamorous celluloid stars, pioneering boffins sit alongside chart-topping rock ’n’ rollers, while artists and their muses mingle with record-breaking sportsmen, Vi...
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