A richly illustrated guide to the literature and landscape of Norfolk
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Norwich by night - on his English Journey (1934), J B Priestley sees 'century after century caught and held in tiny spaces of yellow light and with a frosty glitter of stars above the sleeping city'.
Breathe in the 'Dickensian' atmosphere of the artistic and spiritual capital of Norfolk. Meditate in the Middle Ages with the extraordinary Revelations of Divine Love of Julian of Norwich, gaze at Thomas Browne's garden and revel in the romances of Amelia Opie. Laugh out loud at Daisy Ashford's hilarious The Young Visiters (1890), or wander peacefully along the 'gentle slopes' of Ralph Mottram's beloved Rosary Cemetery. Drink a toast to writers past and present at the Maid's Head Hotel. Search the skies for the tip of the Cathedral spire so symbolic to novelists David Holbrook and L P Hartley. Trace the movements of murderers with Sylvia Haymon's Inspector Jurnet or search for hidden history in D J Taylor's Real Life (1992). If Norwich is the county's literary capital, then the University of East Anglia - in the grounds of Earlham Hall where a young George Borrow once fished - is it's literary Vatican. Tour the 'wonder of the world' in Percy Lubbock's Earlham (1922), before hitting the pioneering trail of 'campus' novelist Malcolm Bradbury. Rewrite history with Christopher Bigsby or circle around W G Sebald's The Rings of Saturn (1998
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