Patrick Wright with David Edgerton & Anna Snaith Link A conversation between Patrick Wright and David Edgerton on Wright's Repeater Books release The Village That Died for England: Tyneham and the Legend of Churchill's Pledge, introduced by Anna Snaith, from Wed 13 Oct 2021. Shortly before Christmas in 1943, the British military announced they were taking over a remote valley on the Dorset coast and turning it into a firing […]
Patrick Wright & Shona Illingworth Link A sound work by Shona Illingworth and Patrick Wright with Big Fish Arts.Patrick Wright's book The Sea View Has Me Again (hardback December 2020, paperback June 2021) is the story of Uwe Johnson, one of Germany’s greatest and most-influential post-war writers, and how he came to live and work in Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in the 1970s. Shona Illingworth is a filmmaker whose work explores the […]
Patrick Wight is Emeritus Professor of Literature, History and Politics at Kings College, London. His books include The Village that Died for England, A Journey Through Ruins, and Tank: The Progress of a Monstrous War Machine.