{"product_id":"humfrey-coningsby-book-jonathan-davidson-9781908853486","title":"Humfrey Coningsby","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor Humfrey Coningsby - lord of the manor of Neen Sollars in South Shropshire - the world was a place of wonders and despair, of love found and then forsaken. He was a cantankerous, sentimental, petulant traveler; a gentleman soldier; a sly linguist; a confidant of Princes and Emperors; a receiver of such delights, and a doomed versifier. He walked out of this world on 10th October, 1610 - and now he walks back in, with barely a word of explanation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis series of poems, complaints, explanations and demands for satisfaction forms the narrative of a life still being lived over four hundred years later. The Siege of Strigonium in 1594 was wretched; life in Aleppo in 2014 is worse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohnathan Davidson\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in 1964 in Didcot, South Oxfordshire, and now lives in Coventry. He won an Eric Gregory award in 1990, and is the author of \u003cem\u003eMoving the Stereo\u003c\/em\u003e (Jackson's Arm, 1993), \u003cem\u003eThe Living Room\u003c\/em\u003e (Arc, 1994), \u003cem\u003eA Horse Called House\u003c\/em\u003e (Smith\/Doorstop, 1997) and\u003cem\u003e Early Train\u003c\/em\u003e (Smith\/Doorstop, 2011). He has had eight radio plays broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4, along with radio adaptations of Geoffrey Hill's \u003cem\u003eMercian Hymns\u003c\/em\u003e and W.S. Graham's \u003cem\u003eThe Nightfishing\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49620676608273,"sku":"GOR007656017","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51278817329425,"sku":"NIN9781908853486","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51612745662737,"sku":"GOR014346086","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52454402752785,"sku":"NLS9781908853486","price":14.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1908853484.jpg?v=1751124223","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/humfrey-coningsby-book-jonathan-davidson-9781908853486","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}