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Summer at Fairacre charmingly recounts this bright, bustling season and the problems and possibilities that unfold against the...

'People in Fairacre simply won't stand for their children being uprooted, and carted away in buses like so many - er, so...

Thrush Green is buzzing with gossip, which everyone is keen to share with two ex-schoolteachers, who have returned to visit their...

When Miss Read took early retirement, she anticipated days of relaxation and calm. She couldn't have been more wrong! Instead she...

Charles Henstock, vicar of Thrush Green is living in his new vicarage after the old one burned down. In its place, eight...

Charles Henstock, rector of Thrush Green, has difficulty living up to his predecessor when he moves to the parish of Lulling. He...

Ellen has been living on her own in a picturesque if damp cottage in Cheshire since her husband abandoned her to go and live with...

Dulcie Ballantyne knows that creative writers' groups attract an unlikely mix of people, so when she starts up Hidden Talents,...

In the heart of the Cheshire countryside, Cholmford Hall Mews, a converted eighteenth-century barn, is far more than an exclusive...

It's Spring again in the village of Thrush Green and with the changing season comes change for many of the villagers.

An...

As the early sunshine begins to warm Thrush Green, it looks as if it is going to be a golden summer. But in this apparently...

Children's voices ring out from the school playground; in the distance there is the gentle hum of a lawnmower; and all around the...

'No matter how devoted, dedicated, conscientious and altogether noble a teacher is, I feel pretty sure that each and every one...

Miss Read heard about the sale of Tyler's Row from the always well-informed Mrs Pringle - and before long Fairacre is alive with...

'The story of the village goes back a long, long time, and it still goes on. I have listened to my neighbours' accounts of tales...

When Kate worked at the Barleybridge Practice, she had thought herself in love with Scott. But that was years ago and she is over...

The arrival of a stranger in the village of Thrush Green stirs up ripples of speculation and interest. Not only does the village...

It's the May Day holiday and a fair has come to the village of Thrush Green. The residents of Thrush Green all have their own...

On a blustery March day in the village of Fairacre, Miss Clare sees two strangers, 'pacing slowly, side by side, along the edge...

In her first book Village School Miss Read gave a picture of the small but detailed world of a typical primary school in a remote...

For the locals of Turnham Malpas the rural peace is disrupted when a famous actor comes to stay to recuperate from illness....

The village is bedevilled by talk and all is not as it seems in the village of Turnham Malpas ...

Does pushy newcomer Venetia...

When Peter Harris arrives in Turnham Malpas as the new rector, he finds the village people welcoming but set in their ways. Yet...

The village school is to get a new head, and the inhabitants of Turnham Malpas await her arrival with curiosity. At first sight,...

Adrift in a raft after a terrible shipwreck, ten strangers try to survive while they wait for rescue.

After three days, short...

In a seaside suburb on Australia’s golden coast, four women head to the water to swim every day . . .

Housewife Theresa wants...

In Second World War Bath, young, naive wireless engineer Will meets Austrian refugee Elsa Klein: she is sophisticated, witty and...

When middle-aged veteran Meadows learns that the authorities have told him a lie about the circumstances of the death of his son,...

'It was just sex, Anj, it didn't mean anything.'

When Anjali finds out that Jack, her boyfriend of ten years, has been...

In this addictive short story collection, twenty-four very different women reach a pivotal moment in their lives.

A widow is...