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Boyd Tonkin is a writer, editor and critic who in 2020 was awarded the Royal Society of Literature’s Benson Medal for outstanding service to literature.

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Mystery and Bliss

Boyd Tonkin on the writings of Richard Jefferies

One day, many years ago, I half-listened to a reading on the radio in the middle of some chore. Suddenly, the prose caught my ear. I had to pay attention. What I heard was extraordinary: a memory of lying on a hillside on a summer’s day that bloomed and soared into the most ravishing, hypnotic account of an ecstatic union with nature and its healing powers that I had ever come across. ‘I was rapt and carried away,’ the author confessed. And so was I.

Ingerlond Their Ingerlond

Boyd Tonkin on Julian Rathbone Kings of Albion

Not long after I first became a literary editor (at the New Statesman), I ran a glowing lead review of an incendiary first novel: Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting. This, I thought, should be the essence of the job: to find and praise fearless new voices and, along the way, annoy the fogeys and the fuddy-duddies.

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