Stella Gibbons

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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books
  • First Book:
    February 1977
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Fairytale Retellings: Cinderella

Nightingale Wood (Apr-2009)

Book List in Order: 23 titles

  • Cold Comfort Farm

    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....

  • Nightingale Wood

    Fairytale Retellings: Cinderella

    A sly and satirical fairytale by the author of Cold Comfort Farm Unavailable for decades, Stella Gibbons's Nightingale Wood is a delightfully modern romance ripe for rediscovery by the many fans of Cold Comfort Farm. Poor, lovely Viola has been le...

  • Conference at Cold Comfort Farm

    Robert Poste’s child is back at Cold Comfort Farm. But all is not well. Flora finds the farm transformed into a twee haven filled with Toby jugs and peasant pottery, and rooms labeled ‘Quiete Retreate’ and ‘Greate laundrie.’ It is, Flora wi...

  • Here Be Dragons

    In the years after World War Two, Nell Sely, child of the forgotten generation, wanders blind through 1950s bohemian London, smoke-filled jazz clubs and bittersweet coffee bars in search of romantic idyll, delving into the dark backstreets of squalid...

  • My American

    My American follows the lives and loves of Amy Lee and Robert Vorst: from a chance childhood meeting to the comic, tragic and romantic trysts that follow. Amy, a baker's daughter, has dreams of becoming a writer, whilst Robert is destined to be a do...

  • The Bachelor

    In St Alberics, Hertfordshire, stands a newly built family home: Sunglades. Its seven rooms house Kenneth and Constance Fielding, middle-aged bachelor and spinster, along with Kenneth's old flame, an industrious Balkan exile, a young economist and th...

  • Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm

    Available for the first time since its original publication more than fifty years ago, "Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm" is a charming collection whose hilarious title story features Christmas dinner with the Starkadders before Flora's arrival. With A...

  • Bassett

    The Tower Guesthouse lies nestled between the beech woods of Buckinghamshire. 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 the...

  • The Charmers

    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. Charmed by a previous mystical experience, her spirituality is nurtured further by the tenants, who seem stuck ...



  • The Rich House

    Set on the eve of World War II in a resort on the east coast of England, The Rich House follows the love affairs of six young people and their intertwined adorations. Encircling their lives is Archibald Early, a once-famous actor, his housekeeper and...

  • Ticky

    Paperback. Pages: 224 Publisher: Random House UK 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 their regiment...

  • White Sand and Grey Sand

    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 van Roeslaere family and their son, Adriaan, a spoilt boy, plagued by ugliness. With ov...

  • The Matchmaker

    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 - with varying degrees of success - the love affairs of her neighbours. H...

  • Pure Juliet

    Never before published, the lost novel by the bestselling author of Cold Comfort Farm.
         Creepy. Peculiar. Fairy. Goblin. Liar. Weirdo. Crank. Genius.
         No one knows what to make of Juliet Slater, not even her mother. And cloth...

  • A Pink Front Door

    James's gesture with the key was cautious because he was not always sure of who or what he would find in the hall when he got in. It might be someone in tears, or someone asleep while they filled up time waiting to catch a train, or someone drunk.Jam...

  • The Snow-Woman

    I suppose I was lonelier than I knew.It's the 1960s, and Maude Barrington, now in her seventies, has kept life firmly at bay since the deaths of her three brothers in World War I. But when an unexpected visitor convinces Maude to visit old friends in...

  • The Swiss Summer

    Nevertheless, within three weeks from that very day she was seated in the train; leaving London, leaving her life in England with every detail arranged and every foreseeable mishap foreseen and guarded against-and pinned on her coat was a bunch of ge...

  • The Weather at Tregulla

    Terence danced, alas, only fairly well. She tried to hide the fact from herself.Una Beaumont, nineteen years old and desperate to leave the small Cornish town of Tregulla to try her luck on the London stage, finds her hopes dashed by her mother's sud...

  • The Woods in Winter

    ...for the first time in her life, she was living as she had always unknowingly wanted to live: in freedom and solitude, with an animal for close companion. Her new life had acted upon her like a strong and delicious drug.Ivy Gover, a curmudgeonly mi...



  • Enbury Heath

  • Starlight

  • Westwood

  • The Yellow Houses

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Stella Gibbons has published 23 books.

Stella Gibbons does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Westwood, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm, was published in February 1977.

No. Stella Gibbons does not write books in series.
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