A spider’s web of wyrd

Cathi Unsworth explores the latest collection of articles from A Year in the Country and finds fascinating connections of threads

A Year In The Country: Wyrd Explorations A Decade of Wandering Through Spectral Fields Stephen Prince A Year In The Country 2024 Pb, 551pp £19.95 ISBN: 9781916940024 Some are born into weirdness. For Stephen Prince, reading John Wyndham’s Day of The Triffids as a child was a warning that the “country idyll” of his Peak District village was illusory. “Low flying military planes flew overhead”, he recalls, “abandoned pill box defences” littered the fields and “unexploded military ordnance” was often upturned. Thanks to their parents’ occupations, there were also “nuclear air raid warning sirens in the shape of smallish brown Bakelite-style boxes, literally sitting on a shelf and window ledge in the front room where my friend lived and a small office in the forecourt of my house”. Such was…

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