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Trouble in Combe Tollbridge: Escape to Combe Tollbridge in this heart-warming and uplifting summer read Roseanna Hall 9781788425087
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Combe Tollbridge, on the Exmoor coast, is a quiet fishing village always happy to welcome visitors for the sake of the local economy, but when an irritating journalist looks like staying overtime, a... -
The Provincial Lady Series: Diary of a Provincial Lady, The Provincial Lady Goes Further, The Provincial Lady in America & The Provincial Lady in Wartime by E M Delafield 9781528718332
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $28.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528718332Author E M DelafieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 636Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read... -
Wedding Bells in Combe Tollbridge: a cosy and heart-warming escapist read Roseanna Hall 9781788425476
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Planning your wedding ought to be a straightforward business when the proposal has been accepted and everyone is pleased for you. But for bride-to-be Susan Jones, a beloved village resident with a... -
The Provincial Lady Series;Diary of a Provincial Lady, The Provincial Lady Goes Further, The Provincial Lady in America & The Provincial Lady in Wartime by E M Delafield 9781528772341
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $37.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528772341Author E M DelafieldFormat HardbackPage Count 636Imprint Read & Co. ClassicsPublisher... -
Moving to Combe Tollbridge by Roseanna Hall 9781788424615
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60When a cosy country cottage goes up for sale in Combe Tollbridge, a small fishing village tucked away on a quiet corner of the Exmoor coast, young couple Jane and Jasper decide to make the move. ... -
Late and Soon (A Novel & 8 Short Stories): From the Renowned Author of The Diary of a Provincial Lady and The Way Things Are, Including The Bond of Union, Lost in Transmission & Time Work Wonders by E M Delafield 9788027335213
RRP: $9.55Booksplease Price: $8.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027335213Author E M DelafieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint E-ArtnowPublisher... -
Quartet by Richmal Crompton 9781509859481
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.65The quartet at the heart of this delightful novel are the four Gainsborough siblings: beautiful but vain Lorna, ultra-sensitive Adrian, nature-loving Laurence and thoughtful, strange little Jenifer... -
The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'One of the great British novels of the twentieth century: a narrative of extraordinary reach, power and beauty' Sarah WatersThe nuns who enter a medieval Norfolk convent are told to renounce the... -
Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner 9780241454848
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43'A novel of love, war and death; brilliantly entertaining and far ahead of its time' Guardian 'She is my husband's mistress - and here am I, taking her out to dinner'Sophia Willoughby of Blandamer... -
The True Heart by Sylvia Townsend Warner
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'The kind of novelist who inspires an intense sense of ownership in her fans ... her sympathies tended naturally to the marginal, the vulnerable, the exploited, the obscure' Sarah WatersSukey Bond,... -
The Flint Anchor by Sylvia Townsend Warner
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'A comic masterpiece' Patrick Gale, GuardianPillar of society and stern upholder of Victorian values, god-fearing Norfolk merchant John Barnard presides over a large and largely unhappy family. This... -
After the Death of Don Juan by Sylvia Townsend Warner
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43'She has a talent amounting to genius' John UpdikeDon Juan, that notorious libertine, has disappeared. Has he been dragged down to hell by demons, as rumoured - or has he escaped? Dona Ana, the woman... -
Mr Fortune's Maggot by Sylvia Townsend Warner
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97'Witty, poetic, clairvoyant' John UpdikeThe Reverend Timothy Fortune, ex-clerk of the Hornsey branch of Lloyds Bank, has found his vocation: to convert the inhabitants of the remote tropical island... -
Stories for Lovers 9780712355537
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Fall head over heels with this collection of unconventional and heartfelt romances that will leave you longing for more. From icons of feminist literature to forgotten Chinese modernists, these... -
Feminist Periodicals and Daily Life: Women and Modernity in British Culture by Barbara Green 9783319632773
RRP: $141.89Booksplease Price: $119.76This volume uncovers the ideas concerning everyday life circulating in the burgeoning feminist periodical culture of Britain in the early twentieth century. Barbara Green explores the ways in which... -
Marling Hall by Angela Thirkell
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York TimesMr Marling, of Marling Hall, has begun to accept - albeit reluctantly - that... -
Stories for Mothers and Daughters 9780712355377
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35From domineering mothers and very modern daughters to the quiet dreamers on either side of the generational divide, this anthology sketches a joyous, fraught, and ultimately tender portrait of... -
The Headmistress by Angela Thirkell
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Barsetshire in the latter years of the Second World War is a peaceful and gossipy place, but there has been one lively change. A girls' school, evacuated from London, has taken over Harefield Park... -
Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars by Faye Hammill
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52As mass media burgeoned in the years between the first and second world wars, so did another phenomenon-celebrity. Beginning in Hollywood with the studio-orchestrated transformation of uncredited... -
Peace Breaks Out by Angela Thirkell
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York TimesIt is 1945. When peace breaks out at last, familiar wartime routines are... -
Growing Up by Angela Thirkell
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35'Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself' Alexander McCall SmithIt is wartime in Barsetshire, and so much has... -
Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E.H. Young Chiara Briganti 9781138379091
RRP: $67.07Booksplease Price: $59.97Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E. H. Young provides a valuable analytical model for reading a large body of modernist works by women, who have suffered not only from a lack of critical... -
The Fairies Return: Or, New Tales for Old by Maria Tatar 9780691152301
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $22.94Originally issued in 1934, The Fairies Return was the first collection of modernist fairy tales ever published in England, and it marked the arrival of a satirical classic that has never been... -
Northbridge Rectory by Angela Thirkell
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35As the war continues it brings its own set of trials to the the village of Northbridge. Eight officers of the Barsetshire Regiment have been billeted at the rectory, and Mrs Villars, the Rector's... -
Miss Bunting by Angela Thirkell
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Barsetshire in the war years. Miss Bunting, governess of choice to generations of Barsetshire aristocracy, has been coaxed out of retirement by Sir Robert and Lady Fielding to tutor their daughter... -
Before Lunch by Angela Thirkell
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Jack Middleton likes to imagine himself a country squire. At weekends he retires to Laverings Estate with his wife, Catherine. He may be pompous, and they may seem ill-matched, but the couple are... -
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason Helen Fielding 9781035051977
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.98One of The Sunday Times's top 100 bestselling books of the past 50 yearsBridget Jones, the original singleton, is back and her life is as chaotic as ever in The Edge of Reason, the number one...