English Journey by J. B. Priestley

English Journey by J. B. PriestleyThe finest book ever written about England and the English Stuart Maconie J. B. Priestley is one of our literary icons of the 20th Century and it is time that we all became re acquainted with his genius. Dame Judi Dench Three years before George Orwell made his expedition to the far and frozen North in The Road to Wigan Pier, celebrated writer and broadcaster JB Priestley cast his net wider, in a book subtitled a Rambling but Truthful Account of What

sustained with energy and relish

British and German sources and new material from the men's families

He considered suicide on multiple occasions – including offering himself up to a pack of circling sharks

revealing the ways in which this struggle mirrored and reflected a much larger societal issue: that no amount of money seems to be enough for even the wealthiest people

just a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain the strange series of events that led to this crime

This Christmas

In this collection of short stories she's a partygoer

to a kind of isolation I have never experienced

Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's The Gruffalo is an undisputed modern classic and has become a bestselling phenomenon around the world

Years later

full of adventure and magic

public transport and accommodation on routeAdvice on planning and preparation