Essential Essex

Ever think that Essex Girl and Fort Escorts are all there is to Essex? Think again and dip into "Essential Essex" where you will discover a dynamic county whose events and personalities have helped to shape the nation. "Essential Essex" is a glorious mix of historic and contemporary tales from one of the most colorful and diverse counties in England. Essex is best described as a parallelogram of contrasts. Pevsner wrote that the Essex variety of character 'must be given precedence over many larger counties', and so it must. Discover a trinity of distinguished writers, Margery Allingham, Dodie Smith and Dorothy L Sayers and find out how the Essex estuaries were made famous by Charles Dickens and Arthur Ransome.