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Angela Thirkell
The next Angela Thirkell novel in the hugely successful series of charming English comedies set in the fictional county of Barsetshire.
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Originally published in 1948, County Chronicle is a clever and quintessentially British classic in Angela Thirkell's beloved Barsetshire series. Now available as a Virago Modern Classic.
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Originally published in 1949, The Old Bank House is a charming and quintessentially British classic in Angela Thirkell's beloved Barsetshire series. Now available as a Virago Modern Classic.
Originally published in 1948, Love Among the Ruins is a clever and quintessentially British classic in Angela Thirkell's beloved Barsetshire series. Now available as a Virago Modern Classic.
A "charming troupe" of Barsetshire inhabitants celebrate a spate of marriages-while one young woman bemoans her prospects-in this novel of 1950s English life (The New York Times).
The locals are…
A widow goes house-hunting in Barsetshire in this witty, moving novel by an author of "graceful stories of upper-class English life" (The New York Times).
One rainy summer, amid the…
In 1930s England, a beleaguered mother frets over her twelve-year-old's "skirmishes with the grown-up world and his schoolmasters . . . amusingly told" (Kirkus Reviews).
Laura Morland loves her son…
Matches are being made among the cream of postwar English society in this novel of "warmth, whimsy, quirks, and vinegar with a dash of vitriol"(The New York Times).
The England…
Anne Hall
Born in London in 1890, Angela Thirkell was Sir Edward Burne-Jones’s granddaughter, J.M. Barrie’s goddaughter and a cousin of Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin. John Collier painted her portrait and…
Penelope Fritzer
Angela Thirkell wrote more than 30 comic novels that spanned the period between 1930 and 1960 in England.
Angela Thirkell (Author)
A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. Author Angela Thirkell recalls the three houses in which she grew up. First ‘The Grange’, where her grandfather, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, set…
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An exclusive, never-before-collected selection of sparkling stories by Angela Thirkell that will charm, delight and entertain.
The next instalment of Angela Thirkell’s brilliantly satirical English comedies set in the fictional county of Barsetshire, which began with High Rising. Perfect for fans of Stella Gibbons, PG Wodehouse…
Barsetshire in the war years. The next Angela Thirkell novel in the hugely successful series of charming English comedies set in the fictional county of Barsetshire. Perfect for fans of…
The next in a hugely successful series of charming English comedies set in the fictional county of Barsetshire.
War arrives in rural Barsetshire.
Both wry and poignant, Peace Breaks Out was written in the tumultuous year that it was set. It is an unforgettable portrait of the joy and misgivings felt in the…
Written with all the charm and wit that are the signature of Thirkell’s Barsetshire series, Growing Up is a heartwarming portrait of a close-knit community during the Second World War.
In this delightful summertime comedy from Angela Thirkell’s classic 1930s Barsetshire series, Oxford student Richard Tebben is won over by the dashing Dean family.
A captivating comic novel from Angela Thirkell’s much-loved 1930s Barsetshire series: trainee barrister Colin Keith makes an ill-advised foray into teaching at Southbridge School.
A delightfully appealing 1930s comedy from Angela Thirkell’s classic Barsetshire series: the Brandons cheerfully confront matters of love, money and an ill-tempered dowager aunt.
Alice Barton finds adventure during a Friday-to-Monday at a grand country house in Angela Thirkell’s classic, deliciously diverting 1930s romantic comedy.
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The book conveys Thirkell’s mastery of detail in recreating life on the county’s estates and farms, and in towns and villages, reflecting the cultural changes forced upon all social classes…
The first of Angela Thirkell’s brilliantly satirical English comedies set in the fictional county of Barsetshire, High Rising is now available as a Virago Modern Classic. Perfect for fans of…
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A sparkling 1930s English romantic comedy, perfect for fans of Stella Gibbons, PG Wodehouse or EF Benson, Angela Thirkell’s classic Wild Strawberries is now available as a Virago Modern Classic.
