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Author
Series
Fairacre series volume 3
Language
English
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Miss Read, the headmistress of Fairacre School, learns of a proposed new housing development that soon has the citizens of Fairacre up in arms.
Author
Series
Fairacre series volume 19
Language
English
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Description
A trip to Florence with her friend Amy is a bright spot in Miss Read's retirement; Henry Mawne's complaints about his new wife and John Jenkins' persistent offers of marriage are not.
Author
Language
English
Description
The Major leads a quiet life valuing the proper things that Englishmen have lived by for generations: honor, duty, decorum, and a properly brewed cup of tea. But then his brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Drawn together by their shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship blossoming into something...
Author
Series
Thrush Green series volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils, Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the town's council...
11) Village affairs
Author
Series
Fairacre series volume 12
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"The villagers are alarmed when they hear the startling rumor that the town's schools will be closed and the children bused to nearby Beech Green"--Amazon.
12) Farther afield
Author
Series
Fairacre series volume 10
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
13) Human croquet
Author
Publisher
Picador USA
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
The narrator, Isobel, 16, is a time traveller, while her brother is afraid of abduction by aliens. They are abandoned by their parents, then seven years later the father returns with a new wife. Where is mother? The grandmother who looks after them won't answer. An English tragicomedy by the author of Behind the Scenes at the Museum.
Author
Publisher
Picador USA/Henry Holt & Co
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A British comedy in which academic Martin Clay is asked by a boorish country squire to assess his paintings. Clay spots what he suspects is a Bruegel and so begins a tale of lies and concealment as he schemes to separate the painting from its owner. By the author of Now You Know.
Author
Series
Thrush Green series volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Tullivers, the former home of old Admiral Trigg and his sister Lucy, had stood empty for many months. Then, one bright April day, two newcomers move in -- an attractive young woman and her son -- and the villagers begin to show their interest and attention, especially several bachelors.
Author
Series
Fairacre series volume 4
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
"MISS CLARE REMEMBERS" brings to life with humour and charm 'Miss Read's view of life in the countryside of the past. Born into a home where food and clothing were hard-earned, where oil and candles were luxuries, Miss Clare--retired village schoolmistress and devoted countrywoman--looks back on a richly rewarding life.
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
In 1989 rural England, two very different men undertake an extraordinary project, forming crop circles in elaborate and mysterious patterns, but when their work attracts media attention and the authorities, they must race to finish the most stunning and original crop circle ever conceived.
18) Frankie's letter
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Description
"'There's a spy in England. Frankie's letter. Read Frankie's letter.' These were the last words said by a dying man to Anthony Brooke in Kiel in Germany during the height of World War One. But who is Frankie? With his cover blown and the German army at his heels, English secret agent Anthony Brooke's search to discover the truth leads him to an innocent-seeming country house. Here, deep within the English countryside, as Anthony uncovers a web of...
Author
Series
Fairacre series volume 17
Language
English
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Description
Times are changing in the charming downland village of Fairacre, and Miss Read isn't certain that it's all for the best. The new commuter lifestyle has caused a drop in attendance at the local school, and officials are threatening closure. Miss Read worries about the failing health of Dolly Clare. Vegetable gardens have given way to trips to the Caxley markets, and the traditional village fete now includes a prize for best quiche. With her trademark...
20) The summer house
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Matt comes across photos of him as a child yet they seem unfamiliar; is it really him? He can't remember the clothes or the toys, and his sister Imogen is nowhere in the pictures. Since her childhood Imogen has loved the Summer House, a charming folly in the grounds of an ancient house on Exmoor and now she and her veterinary husband have the chance of buying. But her marriage is threatened when her husband refuses to live so far from his practice....
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