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A Country Christmas by Miss Read
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Christmas Fiction Ser.
Taken from the original omnibus CHRISTMAS AT FAIRACRE, Miss Read's wonderfully festive collection of Christmas stories is packed with entertaining characters and enchanting stories. From the rural festivities in Village Christmas and Jingle Bells to the pre-war story Christmas At Caxley 1913, the intrig ...Show more
A Peaceful Retirement by Miss Read
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Fairacre Ser.
Open the gate to Fairacre, America’s favorite English village. Having bid a last farewell to her pupils at Fairacre School, Miss Read settles down to what she hopes will be a relaxing retirement. It is not entirely so, of course. She finds herself as busy and in demand as ever: on holiday in Florence, ...Show more
Celebrations at Thrush Green by Miss Read
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Thrush Green Ser.
A major, double celebration is planned in the Cotswold village of Thrush Green: the village school is in its centenary year; and exactly a hundred years ago, one of the village's most notable residents founded a mission school in Africa. But the preparations are beset with problems - Winnie Bailey's hea ...Show more
Farewell to Fairacre: The eleventh novel in the Fairacre series by Miss Read
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Fairacre Ser.
Miss Read must face the future in another delightful slice of village life... Now that Fairacre school no longer faces the threat of closure, Miss Read is looking forward to a few more years of teaching before retirement. But the best-laid plans often go awry. Unexpectedly, her health begins to fail and ...Show more
Farther Afield by Miss Read
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"No matter how devoted, dedicated, conscientious and altogether noble a teacher is, I feel pretty sure that each and everyone feels the same sense of freedom and relief from her chains when the end of term arrives..." So it is for Miss Read - but on the very first day of the long summer holiday she fall ...Show more
Miss Clare Remembers and Emily Davis by Miss Read
$41.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Fairacre
In the English village of Fairacre, the retired schoolteachers Dolly Clare and Emily Davis enjoyed a remarkable friendship, as this moving volume reveals. Childhood playmates in Beech Green, they would remain close throughout their long lives, eventually sharing a cottage in their retirement. They felt ...Show more
News From Thrush Green by Miss Read
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Thrush Green Ser.
From the author of the Fairacre series: "The more turbulent the real world, the more charming we may find the stability of Miss Read's tiny fictional world." --Los Angeles Times Thrush Green is never quite as quiet as it first appears. When a local, long-empty cottage called Tullivers shows signs of oc ...Show more
Over the Gate by Miss Read
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Fairacre Ser.
"The story of the village goes back a long, long time, and it still goes on. I have listened to my neighbours' accounts of tales long ago, and with what unfailing curiosity I observe the happenings of today!" From an unusual weight-losing recipe found in an old notebook - and used with alarming conseque ...Show more
Summer at Fairacre by Miss Read
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Fairacre Ser.
SUMMER AT FAIRACRE charmingly recounts this bright, bustling season and the problems and possibilities that unfold against the backdrop of roses, skylarks and bees. Joseph Coggs finds a temporary home in the schoolhouse while his mother is in the hospital. Miss Read's friend Amy mysteriously disappears. ...Show more
Thrush Green by "Miss Read"
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Thrush Green Ser.
It's the May Day holiday, and a fair has come to the village of Thrush Green.
Village Centenary by Miss Read
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Fairacre Ser.
VILLAGE CENTENARY welcomes us back to Miss Read's cozy downland village just in time for the one hundredth anniversary of Fairacre School. Miss Clare, who was a pupil and later a teacher there, points out that such a centenary should be celebrated, and all of Fairacre is quick to offer suggestions -- fr ...Show more
Winter in Thrush Green by Miss Read
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Thrush Green Ser.
The arrival of a stranger in the village of Thrush Green stirs up ripples of speculation and interest.
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