Laurie Lee

Celebrate the centenary of Laurie Lee with a stunning new edition of his acclaimed autobiographical trilogy, Red Sky at Sunrise, which includes Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, and A Moment of War. Immerse yourself in the endearing yet poignant memoirs of Laurie Lee, which paint an evocative picture of England in transition and the author's...

The beautiful and moving follow-up to the acclaimed Cider with Rosie. '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...

'I remember, too, the light on the slopes, long shadows in tufts and hollows, with cattle, brilliant as painted china, treading their echoing shapes.' Cider With Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of Laurie Lee's childhood and youth in a remote Cotswold village. From the moment he is set down in the long grass, 'thick as a forest and alive...

A landmark collection of poems from the author of Cider with Rosie, as evocative and poignant as his prose. 'If ever I saw blessing in the air I see it now in this still early day...' Laurie Lee is beloved for his writing on a lost rural world. His evocative poetry springs from his deep connection with nature, as he...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books In one of the great English war memoirs, we learn what it is to cross the Pyrenees through freezing snow to fight fascism in Spain; to narrowly escape execution by your own side; to kill a man with a borrowed rifle and feel nothing but shame. Moving and shrapnel-sharp, A Moment...

From the author of Cider With Rosie, this is a moving, lyrical portrait of the landscape of Laurie Lee's world. 'Living in our valley was like broad beans in a pod, so snug and enclosed and protective.' Laurie Lee walked out of his childhood village one summer morning to travel the world, but he was always drawn back to his...

A Moment of War is the powerful and harrowing final book in the acclaimed trilogy that began with Cider with Rosie. A Moment of War is the magnificent conclusion to Laurie Lee's autobiographical trilogy begun in Cider with Rosie and As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning. It was December 1937 when the young Laurie Lee crossed the Pyrenees and...

Andalusia is a passion, and 15 years after his previous visit, Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the civil war, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry, the pride in poverty, the gypsy intensity in vivid whitewashed slums, the cult of the bullfight, the exultation in death, the humour...