Sensible Places: Essays on Place, Time, & Countryside

Parliamentary historian, chronicler of Titanic's sinking and Churchill's ascent, annotator of Kipling and of Kenneth Grahame: GMW Wemyss is, admittedly, these, but much more is he the West Country's beloved essayist, the wry, fond observer of rural humour, chalk-streams, proper gardens, and real ale; village cricket, Evensong, and Lib Dems in their natural habitat.

These collected essays tell of the great themes and small doings of the Valley of the River Wylye, the twenty-st- … er, twenty-s...