On the Black Hill, by Bruce Chatwin (used)

Winner of the 1982 Whibread Literary Award for Best First Novel Te is the frst novel I have seen in two years whích begins to merit the accolade of "masterpiece"?

ALBERON WAUGH, DAILY MANL

Nothing in Mr Chatvin's previous work prepares us for the dramatic intensity with which scene after scene of the novel is brought to light.

He belongs, like Lawrence and Hardy before him, to that lime of novelists, poets, diarists and amateur naturalists who have made the rural life of Great Britain more intimately known to generations of readers than that of any other country in Europe or America.

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

*... in its sense of the delicate balance between nature and people and animals ON THE BLACK HILL signals the arrival of a major novelist.?

ANDREW SINCLAIR, THE TIMES

"The most refreshing novel I have read this year. He knows intimately the comedies, the tragedies and above all the passions and deceits of toil on the land... This is a very moving yet also often funny book?

V.S. PRICHETT, SUNDAY TIMES