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...

'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...

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...