Bøger af Bob Jenkins

Born in rural Herefordshire in 1931, Robert Jenkins grants us a memoir of a vanished childhood. A series of fascinating vignettes and anecdotes, skilfully strung together, convey with candour and hu-mour the spirit of a bygone era, seen through the eyes of a child as he grows into a man. His love of the natural world is unsentimental, indisputable and honest. He paints a picture of rural life in the '30s and '40s as warm and intimate as Laurie Lee's 'Cider with Rosie' does for an earlier epoch. Through his anecdotes, poems, drawings and photographs, Jenkins introduces us to the wild creatures of land and water, domestic animals of farm and home, human comrades young and old, the railway, Kington Camp hospital and the idyllic Hereford-shire landscape of the River Arrow, Rushock Hill and the land around Hergest Ridge. Besides the military historian, the fisherman, poacher and railway historian too will all find much to absorb.This Second Edition is expanded with significant new material.

In the years after a mysterious cataclysm wipes out civilization, Janabai Shepherd grows up doing what any normal, post-apocalyptic farm girl would do. She plays with her friends, goes to school, works in the fields, tends her herd of goats, chases a boy who likes her best friend, gets her heart broken, and takes her turn out on post, guarding Shiva Puri village against Kali, the yellow-eyed demon, who prowls just beyond the wire. What does he want, this demon? Well, to eat people, of course. He is, after all, a monster, but more than anything, Kali has his heart set on Janabai Shepherd, his bride-to-be. Alas, there is nothing more foolish than a demon in love. "Numerous stories tell of apocalyptic futures and community struggles for survival, but Bob Jenkins' ability to blend a powerful saga of monsters, demons and love into an overall coming-of-age story makes for a creation that is hard to define and impossible to put down; very highly recommended, especially for fans of the apocalyptic fiction genre looking for something refreshingly different." Diane Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book review