Richard Brown
Richard Brown was born in 1943 the second of four children of a farming family in the west of the old rural county of Huntingdonshire. After education at Kimbolton School, he graduated with a degree in Agriculture from Wye College, London University, in 1966. Within a few years of returning from university he was running the farm, a job he did until retirement, which then gave more time for other pursuits. He started writing at the age of 65 and, after producing several versions of a semi-autobiographical work, commenced Mary Knighton in November 2009. On completion of this epic story he returned to the semi-autobiographical theme and has produced a quartet of shorter pieces; Thisbe, Long Stop, A Knock on the Door and Feeding the Pigs. Of these Thisbe and A Knock on the Door are complete and have now been published but the other two are works in progress. They all have a rural theme as in Mary Knighton.
General Fiction
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Mary Knighton
Thisbe
A Knock on the Door
Feeding the Pigs
The books in the main are taken from the authors own experience, being raised in rural Cambridgeshire, the son of a farmer and centre of a close community. The books varry from the trials and tribulations of a woman growing up in the late 1800's, finding her place in the world, through to a story about a magic rabbit or surviving the harsh winter of 1963. Thomas Richard looks not only to bring the feeling of life in the past to his work but also the ways of living and the language, unique to his small corner of East Anglia. The books deal with serious issues, in the context of their time, but adding their own brand of humour, taken directly from his own life.
