THE LIBRARY ADDS 32 LOST PIECES

Its been an exciting and unexpectedly prolific winter behind the scenes in the Library. With over 1100 works by H.E. Bates currently listed we weren't expecting to add much to this comprehensive body of work but somehow we've unearthed no less than 32 additional Bates pieces (including 3 short stories, numerous book reviews and 2 more non-fiction pieces with the byline "Flying Officer X"). Apart from the short stories you can read them all in full on the following pages:

• Industrious Ants (short story)
• Worm (short story)
• Our Leader Falls for It (short story)
• Supreme Teller of Sea Tales (essay on Joseph Conrad)
• Anchorage (essay)
• A Note on Virginia Woolf (essay)
• This Peculiar Englishness (essay)
• Happiest Day of the Year (essay)
• The Biggest Pike in the World (essay)
• W.H. Hudson: Interpreter of the Countryside (essay)
• The Day of Glory (Bates's musings on his play)
• The First Squadron (by Flying Officer X)
• Flying Beyond the Reach of Fear (by Flying Officer X)
• Reader's Grow Up (A letter printed in Readers' News)
• Untitled Letter (printed in Story magazine)
• Printer's Error (A letter printed in The Field magazine)
• The Countryman of To-Day (A letter printed in The Field)
• England and the Farmer (A book review in the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts)

A further 14 book reviews can be found by using the Search function on the Library. Simply select 'Added since 2020' in the 'Document Type field'.

If you know of any works by H.E. Bates not yet in our Library (there are a few out there we've been unable to track down, check out our desiderata), we'd love to hear from you. Drop us a line via the contact page.