A collection of nature essays and sketches of village life in Georgeham, N. Devon, in the 1920s, together with powerful pieces on the First World War. Included also are some of Williamson's classic short stories, including ‘Stumberleap’, the mysterious 'Whatever Has Happened' and 'The Heller'. Illustrated with contemporary photographs.

Introduction by John Gregory, 40 illus., 180 print pages, Henry Williamson Society, 2005; e-book edition 2013

Stumberleap represents HW's collected contributions to the Daily and Sunday Express between 1915 and 1935. Beginning with the entire text of the DailyExpress's article on the famous 1914 Christmas Truce, which featured HW’s letter to his parents describing the event, there follows some of his earliest published writings, from 1921 onwards, with nature essays and sketches of village life in Georgeham. The book also includes some of his finest writing on the Great War, with the two series ‘And This Was Ypres’ and ‘The Last 100 Days’, together with the moving ‘I Believe in the Men Who Died’. It finishes with some of HW’s classic short stories: ‘Stumberleap’ (which the Express called ‘The Finest Animal Story Ever Written’), ‘Whatever Has Happened?’, and ‘The Heller’. While much (though not all) of this material was later used by HW in his books, they have all long been out of print, and Stumberleapis an anthology which everyone will enjoy.

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