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A Country Christmas by "Miss Read"
39.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
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.
A Country Christmas by Miss Read
27.99 NZD
32.00 (12% off)
Category: General 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
Battles at Thrush Green by Miss Read
27.99 NZD
31.99 (12% off)
Category: General Fiction
Children's voices ring out from the school playground; in the distance there is the gentle hum of a lawnmower; and all around the village birdsong can be heard. But despite all evidence to the contrary, in the village of Thrush Green, feelings are running high...The rector has a plan for the neglected c ...Show more
Christmas At Fairacre by "Miss Read"
27.99 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: General Fiction | Series: Christmas Fiction
The people of Fairacre celebrate Christmas in a traditional style which has hardly changed over the generations. Children eagerly hang up their stockings, families go to Church together, and everyone enjoys Christmas cake and other treats of the festive season. From an unexpected visitor on Christmas Ev ...Show more
Early Days by "Miss Read"
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Miss Read's early days were spent with two remarkable grandmothers - one in Lewisham, and one in Walton-on-the-Naze. EARLY DAYS is full of childhood memories of an extended family of uncles, aunts and cousins, and their houses full of mystery and adventure, where Miss Read spent so much time, living in ...Show more
Encounters at Thrush Green Omnibus "The School at Thrush Green","Friends at Thrush Green" by Miss Read
26.00 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
For many years, Dorthy Watson and Agnes Fogarty have taught at the village school but now, as seen in the first book in this omnibus, their retirement is fast approaching. In the seond book, the new head settles in and the much-loved characters of Thrush Green gossip and chatter.
Farther Afield by Miss Read
27.99 NZD
Category: General 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
Market Square by Miss Read
27.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Windsor Selection S.
News From Thrush Green by Miss Read
27.99 NZD
31.99 (12% off)
Category: Young Adult 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
27.99 NZD
Category: General 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
Storm in the Village by "Miss Read"
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Read where it all began ... Miss Read classics. New to OrionOn a blustery March day in the village of Fairacre, Miss Clare sees two strangers, 'pacing slowly, side by side, along the edge of Hundred Acre Field which lay on the other side of Miss Clare's garden hedge ...' So begins a story which brings a ...Show more