Ronald Blythe

Ronald Blythe was a beloved English author, essayist, and editor whose deep connection to the English countryside informed a lifetime of writing. Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village is his masterpiece — an oral history of a Suffolk village that captures the voices, memories, and traditions of rural England in the twentieth century. First published in 1969, it became a classic of English non-fiction and was adapted into a film. Blythe wrote with quiet eloquence about landscape, community, and the passage of time. His audiobooks and books are beautiful listening and reading for anyone who loves the English countryside and its vanishing rural traditions.