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A Moment of War by Laurie Lee
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'In December 1937 I crossed the Pyrenees from France - two days on foot through the snow.' Laurie Lee was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spain's civil war. But though he braved icy, storm-swept mountains alone to contact Republican sympathisers, he was immediately ...Show more
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
37.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This title comes with an introduction by Michael Morpurgo. Summer was also the time of these: of sudden plenty, of slow hours and actions, of diamond haze and dust on the eyes; of jazzing wasps and dragonflies, haystooks and thistle-seeds, snows of white butterflies, skylark's eggs, bee-orchids, and fra ...Show more
Down in the Valley: A Writer's Landscape by Laurie Lee
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Living in our valley was like broad beans in a pod, so snug and enclosed and protective.'Laurie Lee left his childhood home in the Cotswolds when he was nineteen, but it remained with him throughout his life, until, many years later, he returned for good.In this never before published collection, Lauri ...Show more
Red Sky at Sunrise: Cider with Rosie, as I Walked out One Midsummer Morning, a Moment of War by Laurie Lee
32.99 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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