Good Evening Mrs. Craven

Good Evening Mrs. Craven
Author: Mollie Panter-Downes
Publisher: Persephone Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: England
ISBN: 9781906462017

Originally published in The New Yorker, Mollie Panter-Downes was the voice of England during the Second World War.

Seduction Never Lies

Seduction Never Lies
Author: Sara Craven
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2014
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0373132204

Red-faced, red-handed! Octavia Denison has always known exactly what she wants--that is, until she's caught in a compromising position by brooding former rock star Jago Marsh. Tavi is mortified, and judging by the gleam in his golden eyes, he's seen everything--and liked it! Used to getting what he wants, millionaire Jago is determined to uncover the identity of the mysterious, flame-haired temptress that trespassed on his property...and to satisfy the craving she's awakened in him. But seducing Tavi proves harder than expected, especially when she's set on putting as much distance between them as possible! It's time to up the ante....

One Fine Day

One Fine Day
Author: Mollie Panter-Downes
Publisher: Virago
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2003-06-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780860685876

It is a summer's day in 1946. The English village of Wealding is no longer troubled by distant sirens, yet the rustling coils of barbed wire are a reminder that something, some quality of life, has evaporated. Together again after years of separation, Laura and Stephen Marshall and their daughter Victoria are forced to manage without 'those anonymous caps and aprons who lived out of sight and pulled the strings'. Their rambling garden refuses to be tamed, the house seems perceptibly to crumble. But alone on a hillside, as evening falls, Laura comes to see what it would have meant if the war had been lost, and looks to the future with a new hope and optimism. First published in 1947, this subtle, finely wrought novel presents a memorable portrait of the aftermath of war, its effect upon a marriage, charting, too, a gradual but significant change in the nature of English middle-class life.

Someone at a Distance

Someone at a Distance
Author: Dorothy Whipple
Publisher: Persephone Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Adultery
ISBN: 9781906462000

J. B. Priestly describes Dorothy Whipple as a "Jane Austen of the Twentieth Century."

Miss Buncle's Book

Miss Buncle's Book
Author: D.E. Stevenson
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2012-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1402270836

From 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 a small English village start to see themselves through someone else's eyes. Barbara Buncle is in a bind. Times are harsh, and Barbara's bank account has seen better days. Maybe she could sell a novel ... if she knew any stories. Stumped for ideas, Barbara draws inspiration from her fellow residents of Silverstream, the little English village she knows inside and out. To her surprise, the novel is a smash. It's a good thing she wrote under a pseudonym, because the folks of Silverstream are in an uproar. But what really turns Miss Buncle's world around is this: what happens to the characters in her book starts happening to their real-life counterparts. Does life really imitate art, and can she harness that power for good? With the wit and charm of a Jane Austen novel and the gossipy, small-town delight of the Flavia de Luce series, Miss Buncle's Book is D.E. Stevenson at her best!

Kitchen Essays

Kitchen Essays
Author: Agnes Jekyll
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Cookbooks
ISBN: 9781906462031

Witty and historically insightful essays on English cooking--first published in the Times in the early 1920s.

Tell it to a Stranger

Tell it to a Stranger
Author: Elizabeth Berridge
Publisher: Persephone Books
Total Pages: 174
Release: 1947
Genre: Nineteen forties
ISBN: 9781903155042

A collection of short stories by Elizabeth Berridge.

Excellent Women

Excellent Women
Author: Barbara Pym
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2006-12-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101666250

Excellent Women is probably the most famous of Barbara Pym's novels. The acclaim a few years ago for this early comic novel, which was hailed by Lord David Cecil as one of 'the finest examples of high comedy to have appeared in England during the past seventy-five years,' helped launch the rediscovery of the author's entire work. Mildred Lathbury is a clergyman's daughter and a spinster in the England of the 1950s, one of those 'excellent women' who tend to get involved in other people's lives - such as those of her new neighbor, Rockingham, and the vicar next door. This is Barbara Pym's world at its funniest.

To Bed with Grand Music

To Bed with Grand Music
Author: Marghanita Laski
Publisher: Persephone Books
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2009
Genre: London (England)
ISBN: 9781903155769

A short, hard-hitting 1946 novel, originally published under the pseudonym 'Sarah Russell', about sex in wartime London.