A classic book exploring agricultural life in Suffolk is being adapted into "something really beautiful" for the stage. Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village, written by the Suffolk author Ronald ...

It was the essayist Ronald Blythe who first conjured up life in Akenfield in 1969 with his depiction of traditional rural life – as experienced in a fictional Suffolk village – just before it ...

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Craig Taylor grew up in the west coast of Canada but came to Suffolk to write a follow up to Ronald Blythe's 1969 novel Akenfield. The fictional village based on Charsfield, the surrounding area and ...

Return to Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village in the 21st Century by Craig Taylor (288pp, Granta) It's 35 years since Ronald Blythe published Akenfield, his classic portrait of a Suffolk village ...

The author of Akenfield, the much-loved portrayal of Suffolk village life, today celebrates his 100th birthday – with an appeal for the world to ‘slow down’. Ronald Blythe’s book became a surprise ...

The biographer of Ronald Blythe, the author of Akenfield who has died aged 100, has told how the writer’s ability to form relationships was affected by being gay at a time when homosexuality was ...

In 1969, the filmmaker Philip Trevelyan was introduced to the Page family. The father – a widower known locally as “Oily Page” – had worked in aircraft engineering but at the time Trevelyan met him, ...

It's exactly 40 years since Ronald Blythe started work on Akenfield. Cycling round the Suffolk countryside on an old Raleigh bike, and equipped with a tape recorder, Blythe listened receptively as ...

Akenfield chronicled the lives of people in a fictional rural Suffolk village A film depicting the rural lives of Suffolk villagers in the 20th Century is being digitised to bring it to a "wider ...

In 1969, Ronald Blythe published a work of non-fiction which he thought would be received as an unassuming social history; a snapshot of life in a small, unexceptional Suffolk village. Much to his ...