Heroic and moving accounts of the R. A. F. in war time by the author of Fair Stood the Wind for France and The Darling Buds of May
H. E. Bates was born in Northamptonshire in 1905. He published his first novel, The Two Sisters, when he was twenty, and for the next decade built up a reputation as a writer of great versatility. During the Second World War Bates was commissioned by the RAF as a short story writer, where he wrote the acclaimed How Sleep the Brave and The Greatest People in the World. His most popular creation was the effervescent Larkin family about whom he wrote five novels including The Darling Buds of May and A Little of What You Fancy. In 1973 H. E. Bates was awarded the C.B.E. He died in 1974.
These stories, wry, often poignant, still move the reader today
*The Times*
After 60 years of writing and reading, I would place H.E. Bates as
one of the best short-story writers of my time
*Graham Greene*
One of the most vividly evocative writers of English ... able to
conjure up in a handful of words whole landscapes and moods
*Listener*
H.E. Bates could achieve a quality of lyrical intensity that few
contemporary novelists can match
*Times Literary Supplement*
He was without an equal in England in the kind of story he had made
his own and stood in the direct line of succession of fiction
writers of English countryside and that includes George Eliot,
Hardy and D. H. Lawrence
*The Times*
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