Nigel Jones: Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth [2015] paperback Condition:New everyday greens

everyday greens

'The writer and poet offers reflections on ice and snow that draw on art

She lives in a semi in the suburbs of London with her parents and works at the call centre down the road

an almost outrageous two years flying the Jaguar and Hunter with the Sultan of Oman's Air Force

and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history

Nigel Jones: Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth [2015] paperback Condition:New everyday greensParagon of youthful beauty, romantic symbol of a lost England, and precociously gifted poet, Rupert Chawner Brooke died in a hospital ship off the Aegean island of Skyros in April 1915, aged just 27. All England mourned his passing. But behind the glow of myth lies a darker reality. At the height of his promise a disappointment in love triggered a mental and physical collapse that brought his inner complexities to the surface. Letters reveal a man who