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Marling Hall 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 TimesMr Marling, of Marling Hall, has begun to accept - albeit reluctantly - that... -
Cheerfulness Breaks In 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 TimesIt is summer 1939 and the social event of the year is about to take place:... -
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... -
Northbridge Rectory by Angela Thirkell
RRP: $12.89Booksplease 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... -
Before Lunch by Angela Thirkell
RRP: $12.89Booksplease 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... -
Growing Up by Angela Thirkell
RRP: $12.89Booksplease 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... -
Jutland Cottage Angela Thirkell 9780349018713
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95'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 new rector, Canon Fewling, and a returned prodigal... -
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... -
The Demon in the House by Angela Thirkell 9781504092876
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $17.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504092876Author Angela ThirkellFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint -
The Brandons: A Virago Modern Classic by Angela Thirkell
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35Lavinia 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 thinks their cousin Hilary Grant when he... -
Three Score and Ten by Angela Thirkell 9781504092890
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $26.28Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Never too Late by Angela Thirkell 9781504092852
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $25.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504092852Author Angela ThirkellFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
High Rising: A Virago Modern Classic Angela Thirkell 9781844088836
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35Successful lady novelist Laura Morland and her boisterous young son Tony set off to spend Christmas at her country home in the sleepy surrounds of High Rising. But Laura's wealthy friend and... -
Wild Strawberries: A Virago Modern Classic Angela Thirkell 9781844088843
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35Pretty, impecunious Mary Preston, newly arrived as a guest of her Aunt Agnes at the magnificent wooded estate of Rushwater, falls head over heels for handsome playboy David Leslie. Meanwhile, Agnes... -
Christmas at High Rising: A Virago Modern Classic by Angela Thirkell
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35Originally published in the 1930s and 1940s and never before collected, these stories by the incomparable Angela Thirkell relate merry scenes of a trip to the pantomime, escapades on ice, a Christmas... -
Summer Half: A Virago Modern Classic Angela Thirkell 9781844089697
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35To his parents' dismay, Colin Keith - out of the noble but misplaced sense of duty peculiar to high-minded young university graduates - chooses to quit his training for the Bar and take a teaching... -
August Folly: A Virago Modern Classic Angela Thirkell 9781844089680
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35It'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 the parental home. But the numerous and... -
Ethnicity and Gender in the Barsetshire Novels of Angela Thirkell by Penelope Fritzer 9780313309151
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English Country Life in the Barsetshire Novels of Angela Thirkell by Laura Collins 9780313284946
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Stormy Petrel: The gripping classic that will keep you on the edge of your seat by Mary Stewart
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35A gripping, nail-biting adventure set in Scotland, from the original queen of romantic suspense Total heaven. I'd rather read her than most other authors' Harriet Evans When Rose Fenemore takes a... -
The Gabriel Hounds by Mary Stewart
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35'A comfortable chair and a Mary Stewart: total heaven. I'd rather read her than most other authors.' Harriet EvansLegend has it that when the Gabriel Hounds run howling over the crumbling palace of... -
Thornyhold by Mary Stewart 9780340500453 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $3.68Thornyhold is a house deep in a wild wood like somewhere out of a fairy tale. Inheriting it is the beginning of a fairy tale for Gilly Ramsey. With the house she finds she is inheriting the mantle of... -
Thornyhold: A gothic romance featuring sparkling prose, delightful characterisation and classic intrigue from the Queen of the Romantic Mystery Mary Stewart 9781444715057
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35'A comfortable chair and a Mary Stewart: total heaven. I'd rather read her than most other authors.' Harriet EvansThe rambling house called Thornyhold is like something out of a fairy tale. Left to... -
The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Mary Stewart, one of the great British storytellers of the 20th century, transports her readers to rural Northumberland for this tale of romance, ambition, and deceit - a perfect fit for fans of... -
The Moon-Spinners by Mary Stewart
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Transport yourself to the idyllic hills of mid-century Crete in this tale of peril and intrigue, from the original queen of romantic suspense and author of Madam, Will You Talk? 'Mary Stewart is... -
The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym by Paula Byrne 9780008322243
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.18'Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously' JILLY COOPER Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the Observer ... -
Three Houses by 9780749012397
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.75"There is always in our minds the hope that we may find again those golden unhastening days and wake up and dream." - Angela Thirkell Angela Thirkell, the cousin of Rudyard Kipling and the... -
This Rough Magic: A completely unputdownable South of France adventure from the Queen of the Romantic Mystery Mary Stewart 9781444720501
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35The pioneer of romantic suspense and author of Madam, Will You Talk? Mary Stewart leads her readers on a thrilling journey to a Mediterranean island paradise in this tale of mystery, murder and... -
Thunder on the Right by Mary Stewart
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35From the original queen of the page-turner and author of Madam, Will You Talk? comes a thrilling tale set in a France as beautiful as it is deadly, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and Barbara... -
Miss Mole by E.H. Young
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35'Young is a sharp and funny writer with a brilliant eye for moral fudging and verbal hypocrisy, and she has a splendid foil in Miss Mole' Sally BeaumanWINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL... -
Madam, Will You Talk?: The modern classic by the Queen of the Romantic Mystery Mary Stewart 9781444711202
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35The original queen of the page-turner Mary Stewart leads her readers on a thrilling journey through a dangerous and deadly Provence in this tale perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and Barbara Pym... -
Nine Coaches Waiting: The twisty, unputdownable classic from the Queen of the Romantic Mystery Mary Stewart 9781444711073
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35A thrilling, twisty tale of a dangerous romance set in the heart of mid-century Savoy, from the author of Madam, Will You Talk. 'Mary Stewart is magic' New York Times Linda Martin understands what is... -
Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35'A comfortable chair and a Mary Stewart: total heaven. I'd rather read her than most other authors.' Harriet EvansAshley Court: the tumbledown ancestral home of the Ashley family, all blessed with... -
The New Rector by Rebecca Shaw 9780752827506 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $2.55The first Turnham Malpas novel from bestselling author Rebecca Shaw.When Peter Harris arrives in Turnham Malpas as the new rector, he finds the village people welcoming but set in their ways. Yet... -
Four French Holidays: Daphne Du Maurier, Stella Gibbons, Rumer Godden, Margery Sharp and their novels inspired by France by Anne Hall
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $24.81Four popular novelists of the same generation each wrote a novel inspired by a holiday that the author spent in France. In the nineteen-fifties, Rumer Godden based The Greengage Summer on her... -
Wave Me Goodbye: Stories of the Second World War by Anne Boston
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35'Fascinating . . . a poignant book . . . an unusual and absolutely authentic view of those convulsive years' OBSERVER 'Each story in Wave Me Goodbye is a relic of the Second World War' SUNDAY TIMES...