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Wild Strawberries
A witty romp through English Country-house life at its most delightfully absurd. At Rushwater House in West Barsetshire, Lady Emily Leslie and her family are entertaining an assortment of house...
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August Folly
August Folly chronicles the lives and loves of modern Barsetshire in this comedy of everyday life in an English village community. There is Mrs. Palmer, with her fondness for staging Greek dramas, who...
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Miss Bunting
The carefully observed separation of the old and new social strata is upset when representatives of each come together in the sphere of Miss Bunting–the governess who has molded most of the county’s...
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What Did It Mean?
A fictional stretch of English countryside in which a large and recurring cast of characters play out—in stylish and comic comfort—the conversations…that determine the destiny of a community. The plot...
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Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street is the zesty sequel to 84, Charing Cross Road. Here Hanff returns and finally travels to England to meet her cherished correspondents of twenty years. Praise for The...
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Queen Lucia
The first book in Benson’s famous series introduces us to Emmeline Lucas (Lucia) as she attempts to thwart the social climbing of a newly arrived Opera singer, Olga Braceley. Along with Lucia’s...
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Enter Sir Robert
In her modern Barsetshire chronicles, the author returns to her familiar haunts to concoct another lively tale of village society and family life, spiced with the yearnings and hesitations of a...
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Happy Returns
Thirkell welcomes us back to the beloved precinct of Barsetshire in this novel set in the mid-century. Old friends and new faces join the community conversation which ranges from Sir Cecil Waring’s...
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Close Quarters
“When in doubt the answer’s always tea,” Sister Chiffinch sagely remarks in this penultimate novel in Angela Thirkell’s Barsetshire series, and what reader would disagree with her? For like everything...
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Love At All Ages
The last novel in Angela Thirkell’s beloved series of modern Barsetshire chronicle is a happy concoction indeed, returning readers – in stylish and comic comfort – to pleasant haunts in the company of...
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The first novel in the Barsetshire series introduces one of Angela Thirkell’s most beloved characters— Laura Morland, a semi-autobiographical novel-writing widow and mother of four. In High Rising,...
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