{"product_id":"9781845138134","title":"The Last Englishman: The Life of J.L Carr","description":"J.L. Carr was the most English of Englishmen: a man who spent most of his working life in the middle of Middle England, as headmaster of a Northamptonshire school, an enthusiastic follower of cricket and a tireless campaigner for the conservation of country churches. But he was also the author of half a dozen of the quirkiest, most comic novels in English, a publisher (from his own back bedroom in Kettering) of some of the most eccentric, collectable - and smallest - books ever printed, and an enigmatic, elusive individual. Among Carr's novels are \"A Month in the Country\", his moving story of a World War I survivor that is now a Penguin Classic - which won the Guardian Fiction Award, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and made into a highly successful film starring Kenneth Branagh and Colin Firth; \"How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup\", now published as a Prion Humour Classic and acclaimed as one of the funniest novels ever written about football, and \"The Harpole Report\", acknowledged to be one of the funniest novels ever written about a school. Meanwhile his own self-published \"Carr's Dictionary of Extraordinary Cricketers\" became the smallest bestseller ever printed. This biography tells the life story of this fascinating man - a life both surprising and varied, from war service on a West African flying-boat base to a strange interlude teaching in the heart of South Dakota - and discovers a headmaster who would hold arithmetic races on sports day, a mysterious individual who buried all his treasures in his garden and was someone different to everyone who met him, and a novelist whose fiction is partially autobiographical.","brand":"Aurum Press, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47136070762736,"sku":"9781845138134","price":5.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781845138134_p0.jpg?v=1769894289","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781845138134","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}