{"product_id":"mad-shepherds-by-l-p-jacks-9781915068477","title":"Mad Shepherds","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1910, Mad Shepherds, subtitled \"and other human stories,\" is an extraordinary book. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe author, Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, was a philosopher, educator, writer and Unitarian minister, who came to live in the Vale of Evesham in the northern Cotswolds at the end of the nineteenth century. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMad Shepherds is a lightly fictionalised account of life in the village, which Jacks calls Deadborough, and is also a highly idiosyncratic and authentic exploration of rural life and culture. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe protagonist is Snarley Bob, a shepherd, whose gruff and often rude outpourings conceal a dark wit and intelligence. As Jacks writes, \"Mystic, star-gazer, dabbler in the black or blackish arts, he seemed in his lowly occupation of shepherd to represent some strange miscarriage of Nature's designs.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFull of memorable portraits of the villagers, Mad Shepherds is a compulsively readable, sometimes strange book about an England now entirely lost and largely forgotten. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis new edition has an introduction by the actor and director Mackenzie Crook.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"L P Jacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56895082004853,"sku":"9781915068477","price":14.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/4075\/2426\/files\/9781915068477.jpg?v=1773318055","url":"https:\/\/sherlockandpages.com\/products\/mad-shepherds-by-l-p-jacks-9781915068477","provider":"Sherlock \u0026 Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}