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Stella Gibbons
Flora Poste has been expensively educated to do everything but earn her own living. When she is orphaned at twenty, she decides her only option is to go and live…
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When a well-educated young socialite in 1930s England is left orphaned and unable to support herself at age twenty-two, she moves in with her eccentric relatives on their farm.
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Gibbons’ semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story about three siblings living in a Hampstead Heath cottage
‘Don’t show proper feelin’, does it, not turnin’ up for ‘is dad’s funeral?’
Siblings Sophia, Harry and…
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A novel, first published in 1969.
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Gladys and Annie Barnes are impoverished sisters who have seen better times. They live in a modest cottage in the backstreets of Highate with Mr Fisher, a mild but eccentric…
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY LYNNE TRUSS ‘Stella Gibbons is the Jane Austen of the twentieth century’ The Times Set in wartime London, Westwood tells the story of Margaret Steggles, a…
On the dunes west of Bruges, two-year-old Ydette is found wrapped in a blanket and taken back to live in a small grocer’s shop. Opposite the shop live the wealthy…
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Wilfred Davis, quiet, retired, respectable widower, is sitting and sobbing on a park bench. He has lost his daughter and any sense of purpose. A mysterious stranger passes him a…
The Club in central London holds the quarters of Queen Victoria’s finest regiment: the First Bloods. Inside the mighty building, with its two exquisite glass towers, the First Bloods and…
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It might take the rest of her life to find out. While Stella Gibbons was celebrated for her beloved bestseller Cold Comfort Farm, the manuscript for Pure Juliet lay unseen…
Follows the love affairs of six young people and their intertwined adorations. This title features Archibald Early, a once-famous actor, his housekeeper and his grandson Ted.
Thrown out of her long-established office job, Miss Christine Smith takes up a new role as housekeeper for a group of middle-aged artists. Written in the 1960s, surrounded by social…
Cold Comfort Farm (Unabridged) by Stella Gibbons In Gibbons’s classic tale, a resourceful young heroine finds herself in the gloomy, overwrought world of a Hardy or Bronte novel and proceeds…
Brother and sister, Constance and Kenneth Fielding live in calm respectability, just out of reach of London and the Blitz. But when a series of uninvited guests converge upon them…
It is run by the unlikely partnership of balmy Miss Padsoe and young, cockney Miss Baker - divided by class and age, they are determined to dislike each other. Through…
A novel, first published in 1970.
A novel, first published in 1951.
A novel, first published in 1962.
** AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME ** ‘Stella Gibbons’s gift is very special’ Daily Express Amy, a neglected motherless child in 1920s London meets Robert, a…
A novel, first published in 1959.
Sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste has been expensively educated to do everything but earn a living. When she is orphaned at twenty, she decides her only option is to descend on…
Uprooted from war-torn London, Alda Lucie-Brown and her three daughters start a new life at Pine Cottage in rural Sussex. Unsuited to a quiet life, Alda attempts to orchestrate -…
When Nell Sely moves from sleepy Dorset to Hampstead she leaves behind a childhood of dull teas and oppressive rules for the freedom of the big city. In this city…
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Cherry Hellin'sworth is fulfilling her Community Service stint by working at a Village Hall as the Functions Manager. But she’s not terribly good at it. On one evening she manages…
In The Importance of Being Earnest Jack Worthing discovers every obstacle has been removed from marriage to Gwendolen. Or so he believes. Gwendolen’s mother, Lady Bracknell, confesses her own bizarre…
Flora Poste, orphaned at twenty, decides to go and live with her relatives at Cold Comfort Farm. Once there she discovers they exist in a state of chaos and feels…
Unavailable for decades, Nightingale Wood is a delightfully modern romance ripe for rediscovery by the many fans of Gibbons’ Cold Comfort Farm. Includes a new Introduction by Sophie Dahl.
Presents a funny portrait of British rural life in the 1930s, in which Flora, a recently orphaned socialite, moves in with her country relatives, the gloomy Starkadders of Cold Comfort…
Robert Poste’s child is back at Cold Comfort Farm. Flora finds the farm transformed into a twee haven filled with Toby jugs and peasant pottery, and rooms labelled ‘Quiete Retreate’…
A modern, satirical fairytale that has been unavailable for decades, by the author of COLD COMFORD FARM
Indulge in a feel-good collection of stories from the author of Cold Comfort Farm WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH The title story tells of a typical Christmas at…
Anne Hall
What four 20th c. novelists have made of their respective holidays in France.
