Table of Contents
Acknowledgements vi
Introduction: On Leaf-Moulds vii
Chapter 1 A Sickly Boy in Bloemfontein 1
Chapter 2 The Ogres at Sarehole 9
Chapter 3 City Languages and Warring Trees 21
Chapter 4 The Lost and Found Boys 33
Chapter 5 Mabel, Belladonna, Edith, Lúthien 46
Chapter 6 A Holiday and Isolation in Oxford 58
Chapter 7 On the Eve of War 70
Chapter 8 Shells Burst 80
Chapter 9 Remembrance 90
Chapter 10 Oxford, Leeds and Back Again 95
Chapter 11 A Long Spell in Oxford, Hwaete 106
Chapter 12 On Discovering Hobbits 116
Chapter 13 The News Language of War 124
Chapter 14 Writing in a Fallen Earth 129
Chapter 15 The Story Rings True 135
Chapter 16 A Twilight Time in the Healing Houses 142
Chapter 17 Legacy, or the Sub-creations 150
Appendix 156
Notes 157
Bibliography 165
