Review. Lee provided a great deal of valuable support to the Brotherhood of Ruralists in their attempts to establish themselves in the 1970s, and he continued to do so until his death; his essay Understanding the Ruralists opened the Brotherhood's major 1993 retrospective book. Indeed, it was Lee who is said to have given them the name "Ruralists." In 2003 the British Library acquired Lee's original manuscripts, letters and diaries. The collection includes two unknown plays and drafts of Cider with Rosie, which reveal that early titles for the book were Cider with Poppy, Cider with Daisy and The Abandoned Shade. Final years In the 1960s, Lee and his wife returned to Slad to live near his childhood home, where they remained for the rest of his life, though for many years he retained a flat in Chelsea, coming to London to work during the week and returning to Slad at weekends. Lee revealed on the BBC1 Wogan show in 1985 that he was frequently asked by children visiting Slad as part of their O-Level study of Cider with Rosie "where Laurie Lee was buried", assuming that the author was dead. An archive recording of Lee's voice was used for the narration of the Carlton Television film Cider with Rosie (1998), which was first broadcast after his death. The screenplay was written by his friend John Mortimer. Laurie Lee died in Slad on 13 May 1997, at the age of 82. He is buried in the local churchyard. Works Books Land at War (1945) We Made a Film in Cyprus (1947), with Ralph Keene An Obstinate Exile (1951) A Rose for Winter: Travels in Andalusia (1955) Man Must Move: The Story of Transport (with David Lambert, 1960); published in the US as The Wonderful World of Transportation (1960) – for children The Firstborn (1964) I Can't Stay Long (1975) Innocence in the Mirror (1978) Two Women (1983) Autobiographical Trilogy Cider with Rosie (1959); published in the US as The Edge of Day (1960) As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) A Moment of War (1991) Poetry The Sun My Monument (The Hogarth Press, 1944) The Bloom of Candles: Verse from a Poet's Year (John Lehmann, 1947) My Many-Coated Man (André Deutsch, 1955) The Pocket Poets Laurie Lee (1960) Selected Poems (Penguin Books, 1983) Recordings Laurie Lee reading 'Cider with Rosie' complete and unabridged. ISIS audio books 1988. 7 disc