Angela Thirkell
By the Author
County Chronicle
'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York Times The county…
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Jutland Cottage
'Charming, very funny indeed' ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH Change is in the air in Barsetshire. The country may have a new queen, but Greshambury has a…
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Love Among the Ruins
'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York Times It's the…
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The Old Bank House
'Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself' - Alexander McCall Smith Edgewood Rectory may…
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Peace Breaks Out
'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York Times It is…
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Cheerfulness Breaks In
'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York Times It is…
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Growing Up
'Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself' Alexander McCall Smith It is wartime in…
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Marling Hall
'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York Times Mr Marling,…
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The Headmistress
Barsetshire in the latter years of the Second World War is a peaceful and gossipy place, but there has been one lively change. A girls'…
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Miss Bunting
Barsetshire in the war years. Miss Bunting, governess of choice to generations of Barsetshire aristocracy, has been coaxed out of retirement by Sir Robert and…
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Northbridge Rectory
As the war continues it brings its own set of trials to the the village of Northbridge. Eight officers of the Barsetshire Regiment have been…
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Before Lunch
Jack Middleton likes to imagine himself a country squire. At weekends he retires to Laverings Estate with his wife, Catherine. He may be pompous, and…
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August Folly
It's August in the Barsetshire village of Worsted, and Richard Tebben, just down from Oxford, is contemplating the gloomy prospect of a long summer in…
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Summer Half
To his parents' dismay, Colin Keith - out of the noble but misplaced sense of duty peculiar to high-minded young university graduates - chooses to…
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The Brandons
Lavinia Brandon is quite the loveliest widow in Barsetshire, blessed with beauty and grace, as well as two handsome grown-up children, Delia and Francis. So…
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Pomfret Towers
Pomfret Towers, Barsetshire seat of the earls of Pomfret, was constructed, with great pomp and want of concern for creature comforts, in the once-fashionable style…
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Christmas at High Rising
Originally published in the 1930s and 1940s and never before collected, these stories by the incomparable Angela Thirkell relate merry scenes of a trip to…
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Wild Strawberries
Pretty, impecunious Mary Preston, newly arrived as a guest of her Aunt Agnes at the magnificent wooded estate of Rushwater, falls head over heels for…
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High Rising
Successful lady novelist Laura Morland and her boisterous young son Tony set off to spend Christmas at her country home in the sleepy surrounds of…