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A blaze of Breckland colour near Watton - the 'unique and curiously intimate' landscape portrayed by Michael Home in Autumn Fields (1944).
Explore the 'lovely old country' of south Norfolk with Virginia Woolf, 'making out beautiful stories every step of the way' at Blo' Norton. Dodge bullets in East Harling with George MacDonald Fraser's 'ripping yarn' Mr American (1980). Enjoy the quiet intimacy of Michael Home's memoirs and novels and John, Katherine and Colin Middleton Murry's 'confessional' writings. Observe Barbara Vine's mystery The Brimstone Wedding (1996) rising from saturated soil, close to the source of the Little Ouse and Waveney rivers. Plough flint-strewn fields with Mary Mann at Shropham, learn history at Swaffham with crime writer Brian Cooper and chart the 'changes of climate' here with novelist Hilary Mantel. Prepare for reform at Thetford with political campaigner Thomas Paine, scratch the surface of society with the venomous quill of pamphleteer Thomas Nashe at nearby West Harling. Waken to the cries of the Norman invaders at Weeting Castle in Charles Kingsley's Hereward the Wake (1866).
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