The Captain's Apprentice:
Ralph Vaughan Williams and the story of a folk song

Published 2022

The Captain's Apprentice: Ralph Vaughan Williams and the story of a folk song  tells how the true story of the brutal murder of a cabin-boy at sea was transformed into a musical evocation of rural Norfolk by one of England’s most renowned composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Published by Chatto & Windus in 2022, the 150th anniversary of Vaughan Williams' birth.  Winner of HWA Non-Fiction Award 2023 and New Angle Prize 2023

"'Microhistory' at its very best."

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