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James Lloyd Carr, born 1912, attended the village school at Carlton Miniott in the North Riding and Castleford Secondary School. He died in Northamptonshire in 1994. His novel A Month in the Country won the Guardian Fiction Prize, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and made into a memorable film.

Books by J L Carr

How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup

How England's most obscure local team, who felt lucky when their home pitch was above water-level, went all the way to Wembley

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A Month in the Country

A haunting novel about art and its power to heal, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.

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