{"product_id":"the-last-englishman-the-life-of-j-l-carr","title":"Byron Rogers: The Last Englishman [2003] hardback","description":"J.L. Carr was the most English of Englishmen: a man who spent most of his working life in the middle of Middle England, as headmaster of a Northamptonshire school, an enthusiastic follower of cricket and a tireless campaigner for the conservation of country churches. But he was also the author of half a dozen of the quirkiest, most comic novels in English, a publisher (from his own back bedroom in Kettering) of some of the most eccentric, collectable - and smallest - books ever printed, and an enigmatic, elusive individual. Among Carr's novels are \"A Month in the Country\", his moving story of a World War I survivor that is now a Penguin Classic - which won the Guardian Fiction Award, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and made into a highly successful film starring Kenneth Branagh and Colin Firth; \"How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup\", now published as a Prion Humour Classic and acclaimed as one of the funniest novels ever written about football, and \"The Harpole Report\", acknowledged to be one of the funniest novels ever written about a school. Meanwhile his own self-published \"Carr's Dictionary of Extraordinary Cricketers\" became the smallest bestseller ever printed.\u003cbr\u003eThis biography tells the life story of this fascinating man - a life both surprising and varied, from war service on a West African flying-boat base to a strange interlude teaching in the heart of South Dakota - and discovers a headmaster who would hold arithmetic races on sports day, a mysterious individual who buried all his treasures in his garden and was someone different to everyone who met him, and a novelist whose fiction is partially autobiographical.","brand":"Rogers, Byron","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":47809971945811,"sku":"XG81854108388","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/rogers-byron-byron-rogers-the-last-englishman-2003-hardback-xg81854108388-54922306617683.jpg?v=1727642833","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/the-last-englishman-the-life-of-j-l-carr","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}