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Country Life Trending: Country Life 10 February 2021 looks at letter writing, vintage tractors, anchovies and much more. Credit: Country Life LIBRARIES: For the literary-minded Regency gentleman, no room was more beloved than a well-stocked library, says John Martin Robinson. TRACTORS: Riding a vintage tractor is to be at one with the countryside, working the soil with the lightest of touches, believes John Lewis-Stempel. RURAL CLERGY: From genetics to natural history and terrier breeding, rural clergy have shaped all our lives, reveals the Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie. ANCHOVIES: Nothing packs a more pungent punch than the humble anchovy, notes Tom Parker Bowles. AMETHYST: Hetty Lintell on February’s regal birthstone, amethyst. ....
La Roche is exactly how you would picture a small village in South-West France. Red-tiled roofs, quaint shutters, a cat picking its way slowly across the square towards the mairie in the bright winter sunshine. My wife Penny and I live in what locals call ‘La Maison Toute Seule’ (The House All Alone), hidden at the end of a track by the forest. One morning in late October, our two dogs a puppyish female black labrador, Plum, and a stately male border terrier, Rupert started barking uncontrollably at something beyond the stone wall of the front garden. The usual cause of such canine commotion is the escape of our pony Zeb, the Harry Houdini of horses. So I grabbed a lead rope, marched outside and opened the wooden front gate. But instead of Zeb, there was a bedraggled and aged golden labrador. ....
World literature In 2021, we will hopefully see theatres back open again. One of last year’s anticipated happenings that didn’t happen was the premiere of Zadie Smith’s first play, The Wife of Willesden, an adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath. If it doesn’t get to the stage anytime soon, never fear, Hamish Hamilton are publishing the manuscript in June. It will be interesting to see what Smith does with the bawdy poetry of Chaucer. Jonathan Franzen isn’t known for breaking the fourth wall, but his new novel sounds faintly metafictional. Crossroads (4th Estate, October) is the first in a trilogy called The Key to All Mythologies. That name, of course, is taken from a book the insufferable Casaubon never finishes in George Eliot’s Middlemarch. Crossroads spans three generations of the Hildebrandt family during the second half of the 20th century. Franzen is often called America’s greatest living novelist, which he’s not, because there isn� ....