{"product_id":"millstone-grit-by-glyn-hughes","title":"Millstone Grit by Glyn Hughes","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGlyn Hughes lived a solitary childhood in the hedges, woods and fields of Cheshire, where he developed an insatiable appetite for the wonders of the countryside. When he moved to Yorkshire in later life, these childhood visions of England were upset by the remnants of the Industrial Revolution and the impact it so clearly had on the natural world. Yet throughout the 1960s and 1970s, with further and deeper excursions into his new homeland, Hughes became awkwardly attached in ways he didn’t easily understand.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTaking the form of a fifty-mile walk through the West Riding and East Lancashire, exploring the moorlands alongside the industrial towns of the Pennines, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMillstone Grit\u003c\/i\u003e is a record of a growing attachment to place. Interviewing millworkers and interrogating the awakening of the urban working-class, this classic book is also an attempt to reconcile the clash between wild and human landscapes. \u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy evoking the particular culture of a place\u003c\/span\u003e, with poetry, humour, and the weave of history, Hughes’ vision celebrates the complex intertwining of nature and culture, people and place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGlyn Hughes (1933-2011) was born in Middlewich, Cheshire, where his father was a bus conductor and his mother worked as a cleaner. He attended Altrincham Grammar and went on to study at Manchester School of Art, after which he became a teacher of Art \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eHistory and English in various places, including Strangeways Prison in Manchester. He was awarded the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e Fiction Prize and the David Higham Prize for his first novel, \u003ci\u003eWhere I Used To Play On The Green\u003c\/i\u003e. His second novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Antique Collector\u003c\/i\u003e, was short-listed for the Whitbread, James Tait Black and Portico prizes. West Yorkshire was the inspiration for much of his work, and in 1971 he moved to Mill Bank, Sowerby Bridge, where he died in 2011.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew introduction by Benjamin Myers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback with flaps\u003cbr\u003e160 pages\u003cbr\u003e216 x 156mm\u003cbr\u003eIllustrated with photographs\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘The best book I have read on the North of England for a long time.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlan Sillitoe.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGlyn Hughes has captured a transitional period – that is beautiful and funny and poetic and moving and true . . . Like the best books it exists in a genre of one. It is simply Millstone Grit.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBenjamin Myers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"daughterofashepherd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40049647386710,"sku":"","price":14.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1202\/5752\/products\/IMG_5471.jpg?v=1663954395","url":"https:\/\/daughterofashepherd.com\/products\/millstone-grit-by-glyn-hughes","provider":"Daughter of a Shepherd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}