DAVID MCKIE joined the
Guardian newspaper in 1965 and was deputy editor from 1975 to 1984. He now writes the 'Elsewhere' and 'Smallweed' columns for the paper and is author of
Jabez: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Rogue, Great British Bus Journeys, and McKie's Gazeteer: a Local History of Britain, all published by Atlantic Books.
In Bright Particular Stars, David McKie examines the impact of twenty-six remarkable British eccentrics on twenty-six unremarkable British locations. From Broadway in the Cotswolds, where the Victorian bibliomaniac Sir Thomas Phillipps nurtured dreams of possessing every book in...
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