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What do readers say about Miss Buncle's Book?
roman a clef charming and amusing comedy of manners a gentle comedyFrom beloved English author D.E. Stevenson who has sold more than 7 million books worldwide In the first heartwarming book of this classic series, D.E. Stevenson proves that one little book can be the source of all kinds of trouble when residents of ... More details on Miss Buncle's Book
One fine summer’s morning the sun peeped over the hills and looked down upon the valley of Silverstream. It was so early that there was really very little for him to see except the cows belonging to T...
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What do readers say about I Capture the Castle?
innocence and sweetness 1940s english style easy to move into brutally honest and funnyOne of the 20th Century's most beloved novels is still winning hearts!
I Capture the Castle tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Here she strives, over... More details on I Capture the Castle
I am sitting in the kitchen sink. That is, my feet are in it; the rest of me is on the draining-board, which I have padded with our dog’s blanket and the tea-cozy. I can’t say that I am really comfort...
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What do readers say about Something Light?
a straightforward comedy charming, quirky, delightful historical, literary chick lit a frothy and agreeableIn 1950s London, a career girl decides it's high time she snared herself a husband
Professional dog photographer Louisa Datchett is indiscriminately fond of men. And they take shocking advantage of her good nature when they need their problems list... More details on Something Light
Not all women are, not even those to whom matrimony is the only tolerable state; for these often like men as husbands, as other women like them as lovers, and others again as small boys. Louisa liked ...
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What do readers say about The Lark Shall Sing?
light hearted and entertaining the wayne family a nice story written in the 30sThere was no money, the family was scattered, and Lucille, who had mothered them all since she was sixteen, was going to be married. So the house must be sold; Lucille knew that was the only sensible things to do, but the family had other ideas.Home ... More details on The Lark Shall Sing
Jeff was not disposed to discuss the point. He had spent the morning there and anyone watching him would have seen only a serious young house-agent taking photographs of a property—but Jeff knew that ...
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What do readers say about The Corner Shop?
charming old-fashioned romance the characters are amusing sweet old fashioned mid-century novelLucille runs a secretarial agency very efficiently. She's all set to go to Paris, but first she has to meet with one troublesome client, a professor who just can't keep a secretary, even her best ones.
When she meets him, she totally understands.
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What do readers say about Lake Wobegon Days?
literate and lyrical collection of essay small town life long, and rambles"Lake Wobegon Days is about the way our beliefs, desires and fears tail off into abstractions-and get renewed from time to time. . . this book, unfolding Mr. Keillor's full design, is a genuine work of American history." -The New York Times... More details on Lake Wobegon Days
The town of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, lies on the shore against Adams Hill, looking east across the blue-green water to the dark woods. From the south, the highway aims for the lake, bends hard left by...
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What do readers say about Cold Comfort Farm?
clever and funny jaunty and optimistic laugh out loud hilarious a great satireThe deliriously entertaining Cold Comfort Farm is "very probably the funniest book ever written" (The Sunday Times, London), a hilarious parody of D. H. Lawrence's and Thomas Hardy's earthy, melodramatic novels. When the recently orphaned socialite F... More details on Cold Comfort Farm
The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spa...
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What do readers say about Mapp and Lucia?
delicious, unmatched humor a comic classic an omnibus edition a wicked pleasureAt last they meet - the two most formidable ladies in English literature collide in genteel and deadly enmity. Lucia shakes the dust of Riseholme from her elegant feet and, with Georgie Pilson as devoted courtier, prepares to conquer the high society... More details on Mapp and Lucia
Though it was nearly a year since her husband’s death, Em-meline Lucas (universally known to her friends as Lucia) still wore the deepest and most uncompromising mourning. Black certainly suited her v...
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What do readers say about The Pursuit of Love?
witty and satirical lightly autobiographical comic novel a story of life upper-class british farceOne of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written, Nancy Mitford's classic is now a major BBC and Prime Video series directed by Emily Mortimer and starring Lily James, Andrew Scott and Dominic West
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THERE is a photograph in existence of Aunt Sadie and her six children sitting round the tea-table at Alconleigh. The table is situated, as it was, is now, and ever shall be, in the hall, in front of a...
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What do readers say about Major Pettigrew's Last Stand?
pleasant and fresh love and guns literary fiction novel witty, sweet and funWritten with a delightfully dry sense of humour and the wisdom of a born storyteller, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand explores the risks one takes when pursuing happiness in the face of family obligation and tradition.
When retired Major Pettigrew strik... More details on Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Major Pettigrew was still upset about the phone call from his brother’s wife and so he answered the doorbell without thinking. On the damp bricks of the path stood Mrs. Ali from the village shop. She ...
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