Bibliography

Works as author

• A Treasonable Growth, MacGibbon & Kee , 1960

• Immediate Possession and Other Stories, MacGibbon and Kee, 1961

• The Age of Illusion: Britain in the Twenties and Thirties 1919-1940, Hamish Hamilton, 1963

• Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village, Allen Lane, 1969

• The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age, Allen Lane, 1979

• From the Headlands, Chatto & Windus, 1982

• The Stories of Ronald Blythe, Chatto & Windus, 1985

• Divine Landscapes: A Pilgrimage through Britain’s Sacred Places, Penguin Putnam, 1986

• Private Words: Letters and Diaries from the Second World War, Viking, 1991

• England: The Four Seasons, Pavilion, 1993

• Word from Wormingford: A Parish Year, Viking, 1997

• First Friends, Viking, 1999

• Going to Meet George and Other Outings, Long Barn, 1999

• Talking about John Clare, Trent Books, 1999

• Out of the Valley: Another Year at Wormingford, Viking, 2000

• The Circling Year: Perspectives from a Country Parish, Canterbury Press, 2001

• Talking to the Neighbours: Conversations from a Country Parish, Canterbury Press, 2002

• A Country Boy: Seven Short Stories, Tern Press, 2004

• The Assassin, Black Dog, 2004

• Borderland, Black Dog, 2005

• A Year at Bottengoms Farm, Canterbury Press, 2006

• A Writer’s Day-Book, Trent Editions, 2007

• Field Work: Selected Essays, Black Dog, 2007

• Outsiders: A Book of Garden Friends, Black Dog, 2008

• River Diary, Canterbury Press, 2008

• The Bookman’s Tale, Canterbury Press, 2009

• Aftermath: Selected Writings 1960–2010, Black Dog, 2010

• At Helpston: Meetings with John Clare, Black Dog, 2011

• At the Yeoman’s House, Enitharmon Press, 2011

• Village Hours, Canterbury Press, 2012

• The Time by the Sea: Aldeburgh 1955–1958, Faber, 2013

• Under a Broad Sky, Canterbury Press, 2013

• Decadel, Enitharmon Press, 2014

• In the Artist’s Garden: A Wormingford Journal, Canterbury Press, 2015

• Stour Seasons: A Wormingford Book of Days, Canterbury Press, 2016

• Forever Wormingford, Canterbury Press, 2017

•        Next to Nature: A Lifetime in the English Countryside, John Murray, 2022

Works as editor

•        Emma by Jane Austen Penguin, 1966

•       Components of the Scene: Stories, Poems, and Essays of the Second World War, Penguin, 1966 - republished as Writing in a War: Stories, Poems, and Essays of the Second World War, Penguin, 1982

•       Selected Writings by William Hazlitt, Penguin, 1970

•       Aldeburgh Anthology, Snape Maltings Foundation/Faber Music, 1972

•       Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, Penguin, 1979

•       Places: An Anthology of Britain, Oxford University Press, 1981

•        The Awkward Age by Henry James, Penguin, 1987

•        Each Returning Day: The Pleasure of Diaries, Viking, 1989 - published in USA as The Pleasures of Diaries: Four Centuries of Private Writing, Pantheon, 1989

•        Private Words: Letters and Diaries from the Second World War, Viking, 1991