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Angela Thirkell
Full Series List in Order
Related Books
1 - High Rising (1951)2 - Wild Strawberries (1934)
3 - The Demon in the House (1934)
4 - August Folly (1937)
5 - Summer Half (1938)
6 - Pomfret Towers (1938)
7 - The Brandons (1939)
8 - Before Lunch (1939)
9 - Cheerfulness Breaks In (1941)
10 - Northbridge Rectory (1941)
11 - Marling Hall (1942)
12 - Growing Up (1943)
13 - The Headmistress (1944)
14 - Miss Bunting (1945)
15 - Peace Breaks Out (1946)
16 - Private Enterprise (1947)
17 - Love Among the Ruins (1948)
18 - The Old Bank House (1949)
19 - County Chronicle (1950)
20 - The Duke's Daughter (1951)
21 - Happy Returns (1952)
22 - Jutland Cottage (1953)
23 - What Did It Mean? (1954)
24 - Enter Sir Robert (1955)
25 - Never Too Late (1956)
26 - A Double Affair (1957)
27 - Close Quarters (1958)
28 - Love at All Ages (1959)
29 - Three Score and Ten (1961)
Book List in Order: 32 titles
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The Demon in the House
- 1934
- / Contemporary Romance
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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, Tony, unconditionally .&#x...
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Wild Strawberries
- 1934
- / Contemporary Romance
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Pretty, impecunious Mary Preston, newly arrived as a guest of her Aunt Agnes at the magnificent wooded estate of Rushwater, falls head over heels for handsome playboy David Leslie. Meanwhile, Agnes and her mother, the eccentric matriarch Lady Emily, ...
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August Folly
- 1937
- / Contemporary Romance
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It''s August in the Barsetshire village of Worsted, and Richard Tebben, just down from Oxford, is contemplating the gloomy prospect of a long summer in the parental home. But the numerous and impossibly glamorous Dean family - exquisite Rachel, her c...
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Pomfret Towers
- 1938
- / Contemporary Romance
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Pomfret Towers, Barsetshire seat of the earls of Pomfret, was constructed, with great pomp and want of concern for creature comforts, in the once-fashionable style of Sir Gilbert Scott's St Pancras station. It makes a grand setting for a house party ...
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Summer Half
- 1938
- / Contemporary Romance
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The denouement of Philip Winter's ill-begotten engagement to featherbrained Rose Birkett is enacted in full view of Southbridge School's extended family during a holiday break. Everyone, including her parents, is rooting for Philip's escape which occ...
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The Brandons
- 1939
- / Contemporary Romance
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An enthralling novel of family secrets and fated love LAVINIA BRANDON was a strikingly beautiful widow who privately adored attracting men of all ages while being perfectly pleased to avoid any trips to the altar. She was comfortably wealthy, com...
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Before Lunch
- 1939
- / Contemporary Romance
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Jack Middleton likes to imagine himself a country squire. At weekends he retires to Laverings Estate with his wife, Catherine. He may be pompous, and they may seem ill-matched, but the couple are devoted to each other.When Jack's widowed sister, Lili...
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Cheerfulness Breaks In
- 1941
- / Contemporary Romance
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'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York TimesIt is summer 1939 and the social event of the year is about to take place: Rose Birkett, a flighty beauty with a penchant for br...
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Northbridge Rectory
- 1941
- / Historical Mystery
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As the war continues it brings its own set of trials to the the village of Northbridge. Eight officers of the Barsetshire Regiment have been billeted at the rectory, and Mrs Villars, the Rector's wife, is finding the attentions of Lieutenant Holden (...
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Marling Hall
- 1942
- / Contemporary Romance
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'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York TimesMr Marling, of Marling Hall, has begun to accept - albeit reluctantly - that he will probably never be able to pass his wonderfu...
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Growing Up
- 1943
- / Contemporary Romance
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Barsetshire in the war years. Growing Up is the story of ladies, gentlemen, and their irrepressible children keeping the war at bay in their country town. Trying to do their part as the Second World War ravages Europe, Sir Harry and Lady Waring open ...
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The Headmistress
- 1944
- / Contemporary Romance
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Barsetshire in the latter years of the Second World War is a peaceful and gossipy place, but there has been one lively change. A girls' school, evacuated from London, has taken over Harefield Park. Miss Sparling seems to be the perfect headmistress: ...
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Miss Bunting
- 1945
- / Contemporary Romance
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The carefully observed separation of the old and the new social strata is upset when representatives of each come together in the sphere of Miss Bunting- the governess who has molded most of the country's upper class. Under Miss Bunting's tutelage, A...
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Peace Breaks Out
- 1946
- / Contemporary Romance
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Even drama settles into circumstance, as the denizens of Barsetshire have learned through the private and public worries the Second World War has delivered to the home front. When peace breaks out, it surprises and unsettles familiar wartime routines...
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Private Enterprise
- 1947
- / Contemporary Romance
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Amid food shortages and grumbling, Barsetshire is unsettled by the arrival of a pretty war widow in this “delicately humorous [and] entertaining” novel (The New York Times).World War II may be over, but its effects linger in the English countrysi...
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Love Among the Ruins
- 1948
- / Contemporary Romance
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'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York TimesIt's the summer of 1947, and peacetime has brought new challenges to Barsetshire. Beliers Priory, once a military hospital durin...
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The Old Bank House
- 1949
- / Contemporary Romance
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'Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself' - Alexander McCall SmithEdgewood Rectory may be set in an ancient landscape, but the Grantly family are very much of their ...
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County Chronicle
- 1950
- / Contemporary Romance
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'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York TimesThe county of Barsetshire is aflutter with preparations. With the wedding of Lucy Marling and Sam Adams fast approaching, and Lu...
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High Rising
- 1951
- / Contemporary Romance
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Successful lady novelist Laura Morland and her boisterous young son Tony set off to spend Christmas at her country home in the sleepy surrounds of High Rising. But Laura's wealthy friend and neighbour George Knox has taken on a scheming secretary who...
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The Duke's Daughter
- 1951
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 of old may be fading away (it’s so hard to find good help these days...
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Happy Returns
- 1952
- / Contemporary Romance
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“Her writing celebrates the solid parochial English virtues of stiff-upper-lippery, good-sportingness,[and] dislike of fuss. . . . Light, witty, easygoing books.” -- The New YorkerAs 1951 draws to a close, Christmas approaches -- ...
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Jutland Cottage
- 1953
- / Contemporary Romance
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'Charming, very funny indeed' ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH Change is in the air in Barsetshire. The country may have a new queen, but Greshambury has a new rector, Canon Fewling, and a returned prodigal daughter: the beautiful, frivolous Rose Fairweather. ...
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What Did It Mean?
- 1954
- / Contemporary Romance
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As Elizabeth II’s coronation draws near, the gentry of Barsetshire engage in preparations, committee meetings, and “their perennially amusing antics” (The New York Times).A new queen is about to be crowned, and the prominent families of Barsets...
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Enter Sir Robert
- 1955
- / Contemporary Romance
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The missing lord of the manor looms large in this quirky novel by an author who offers “a fresh, original, witty interpretation of England’s social history” (The New York Times).Lady Graham is anticipating the long-awaited appearance of Sir Rob...
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Never Too Late
- 1956
- / Contemporary Romance
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A picturesque community in postwar England comes together when it counts in this witty, moving novel in the “beloved” Barsetshire series (Publishers Weekly).Edith Graham is still single when she returns from America to visit Mrs. Morland, and the...
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A Double Affair
- 1957
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 all talking about the upcoming wedding of the ...
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Close Quarters
- 1958
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 social and cultural changes of postwar England, Mrs. Macfadyen wr...
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Love at All Ages
- 1959
- / Contemporary Romance
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From a starry-eyed teenager to an elderly clergyman, it seems no one is immune to romance in the county of Barsetshire . . . In the long-running and beloved series that brings Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire into the mid-twentieth cen...
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Three Score and Ten
- 1961
- / Contemporary Romance
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Barsetshire gathers to celebrate a milestone birthday at the Old Bank House in this conclusion to the much-loved, long-running series.A home is saved from destruction, a budding romance takes steps toward the altar, a doctor experiences the return of...
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Coronation Summer
- Jan-1995
- / Historical
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A rarity in the Thirkell canon, this charming and witty historical novel is set in the coronation summer of 1838, when the young Victoria, scarcely older than the tale's narrator, Fanny Harcourt, assumes the throne of England.
The seventeen-yea...
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O, These Men, These Men
- Jan-1995
- / General Fiction
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O, THESE MEN, THESE MEN!, first published in 1935 and long out of print, is one of Angela Thirkell's few non-Barsetshire novels. Believed to be something of a roman-a-clef, it deftly chronicles the sorrows and renewals, the heartbreak and graduation ...
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Christmas at High Rising
- Nov-2013
- / General Fiction
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An exclusive, never-before-collected selection of sparkling stories by Angela Thirkell that will charm, delight, and entertain Originally published in the 1930s and 1940s and never before collected, these stories by the incomparable Angela Thirke...