Wake

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Paul Kingsnorth: Wake (2015, Unbound)

384 pages

English language

Published July 2, 2015 by Unbound.

ISBN:
978-1-78352-098-5
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5 stars

2019, audiobook read by Simon Vance, ★★★★★
Wow! Vance's masterful narration revealed new layers of detail, enabled a deeper immersion into the plot and setting, and even more disturbingly exposed Buccmaster's mental disintegration.

Since first reading this in 2015-2016, I have stood on the battlefield of Hastings and now feel, if possible, even more of an attachment to the period of the conquest and the regular folk caught up in it.

The Wake has become one of my favourite books.

2016, paperback, ★★★★☆

'English history... seems the work of a temperate community, seldom shaken by convulsions. But there are moments when history is unsubtle; when change arrives in a violent rush, decisive, bloody, traumatic; as a truck-load of trouble, wiping out everything that gives a culture its bearings - custom, language, law, loyalty. 1066 was one of those moments.'
― Simon Schama, A History of Britain: At the Edge of …

Subjects

  • Fiction, historical, general
  • Great britain, fiction