Jocelyn Brooke

• Apr-2000
• / General Fiction
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When Duncan Cameron’s mother dies, he is sent to live with his Uncle Gerald on a remote farm in Kent. What follows is a hypnotic tale of psychological suspense as this boy on the cusp of manhood enters his only living relative’s ultra-masculine w...

• Nov-2008
• / Literary
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'Jocelyn Brooke's writing is imaginatively unique ... a great writer.' Elizabeth Bowen Flowers and fireworks, botany and pyrotechny: these were the twin passions of a delicate, sensitive boy growing up before the Great War. Part-memoir, part-imaginat...

• Oct-2011
• / General Fiction
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Over three decades and through two world wars, in the deserts of Libya and the woodlands of Italy, in the chalk downs of Kent, Sussex and Hampshire, he searched continually for his most beloved and elusive Orchis militaris, the military orchid. Jocel...

• Oct-2017
• / General Fiction
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Brittle, effeminate and perennially untalented, Nigel Tuffnell-Greene has little in common with his high-achieving and ultra-masculine elder brother, Geoffrey, whom he worships and detests â€" hating him with a passion almost indistinguishable from l...

• Oct-2017
• / General Fiction
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The Dog at Clambercrown takes its name from a mysterious pub - seductive and frightening, never visited, only heard of â€" that fascinates Brooke’s child narrator in this beautiful and utterly original work of autobiographical fiction.Both a journe...

• Oct-2017
• / General Fiction
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The calm of Reynard Langrish’s quietly predictable life is shattered when, on a night of rain-swept storm, a stranger â€" a young soldier called Captain Archer - appears at his remote Kentish cottage. He takes Langrish to an ancient hill fort and i...

• Oct-2017
• / General Fiction
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A disarming, lyrical hybrid of fiction and autobiography, this forgotten masterpiece of post-war English fiction follows a small boy through his First World War childhood and teenage years on the Kentish coast, then into the army and frontline servic...