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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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The Good Companions
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(1929) Novel by J.B. *Priestley which gives a warmly affectionate panorama of contemporary England as seen in the experiences of three strangers, from very different backgrounds, who come together to form a small theatrical company. Jess Oakroyd is a carpenter who has walked out of his job in a Yorkshire mill; when her aged father dies, Miss Trant leaves her Cotswold village for an open-ended holiday; and Inigo Jollifant, piano player and would-be writer, gives up his job in an East Anglian school to try a new life. Together, three enthusiastic amateurs, they set up a professional 'concert party', calling themselves the Good Companions. The scene is expertly set to enable the reader to share in the excitement of small-scale theatrical life.
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