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bringing pre-industrial, rural, eighteenth-century England vividly to life on
the page.
One day Ian Marchant, acclaimed author of books
on music, railways and pubs, decided, as all
men of a certain age must, to have a dig around his family history.
Surprisingly quickly, a web search informed him that his seven-times-great
great-grandfather, Thomas Marchant had left a detailed diary from 1714 to 1728.
>
Life-loving diarist Thom - who liked a drink and a game of cards - feels
recognisably Marchant to Ian. With fascinating detail we learn about Thom's
family farm and fishponds; about dung, horses and mud; about beer, the wife's
nights out, his own job troubles and their shared worries for their children.
But as Ian digs deeper beyond the Sussex diary's bucolic portrait he discovers
a subtext - a family descended from immigrants, with anti-establishment
politics, who are struggling with illness, political instability and cash
>
'When I was reflecting late one January evening
on the differences between Thom and me, I realised the unbridgeable thing that
comes between us is industrialisation. He lived right at its beginning, while I
am living somewhere towards its end. Old Thom Marchant was one of the last
people before industrialisation to understand how his world worked - and how to
be largely self-sufficient in it. He knew where his food came from, his fuel,
his water, his clothes. He knew how the welfare system worked, and was part of
its administration; he knew who looked after the roads, too. He collected
taxes. He was not separate from the system, but part of it.'
Rich with immersive detail, One Fine Day
draws a living portrait of Marchant family life in the 1720s and how their
England (rainy, muddy, politically turbulent, illness-ridden) became the
>
bringing pre-industrial, rural, eighteenth-century England vividly to life on
the page.
One day Ian Marchant, acclaimed author of books
on music, railways and pubs, decided, as all
men of a certain age must, to have a dig around his family history.
Surprisingly quickly, a web search informed him that his seven-times-great
great-grandfather, Thomas Marchant had left a detailed diary from 1714 to 1728.
>
Life-loving diarist Thom - who liked a drink and a game of cards - feels
recognisably Marchant to Ian. With fascinating detail we learn about Thom's
family farm and fishponds; about dung, horses and mud; about beer, the wife's
nights out, his own job troubles and their shared worries for their children.
But as Ian digs deeper beyond the Sussex diary's bucolic portrait he discovers
a subtext - a family descended from immigrants, with anti-establishment
politics, who are struggling with illness, political instability and cash
>
'When I was reflecting late one January evening
on the differences between Thom and me, I realised the unbridgeable thing that
comes between us is industrialisation. He lived right at its beginning, while I
am living somewhere towards its end. Old Thom Marchant was one of the last
people before industrialisation to understand how his world worked - and how to
be largely self-sufficient in it. He knew where his food came from, his fuel,
his water, his clothes. He knew how the welfare system worked, and was part of
its administration; he knew who looked after the roads, too. He collected
taxes. He was not separate from the system, but part of it.'
Rich with immersive detail, One Fine Day
draws a living portrait of Marchant family life in the 1720s and how their
England (rainy, muddy, politically turbulent, illness-ridden) became the
>
twenty-five years as a writer, broadcaster and performer. His non-fiction books
include Parallel Lines, The Longest Crawl and A Hero for High
Times, which was long-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize. Ian has presented
numerous broadcasts for Radio 3 and Radio 4, in particular on psycho-geography
and contemporary rural affairs. He is an intermittent presenter on Radio 4's
long-running Open Country, and a regular diarist for the Church Times.
He has written for the Guardian, the Observer, the Daily
Telegraph and the Sunday Times. He has made numerous appearances as
a guest speaker, compere, quizmaster and lounge singer, and is also a creative
writing tutor and guest speaker for the Arvon Foundation. He lives in
Presteigne with his family.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2023 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Biographien, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Buch |
| Inhalt: | Gebunden |
| ISBN-13: | 9781912836994 |
| ISBN-10: | 1912836998 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | Marchant, Ian |
| Hersteller: | Duckworth Books |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 149 x 224 x 39 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Ian Marchant |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 06.04.2023 |
| Gewicht: | 0,58 kg |
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