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Summer Half: A Virago Modern Classic by Angela Thirkell
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
To his parents' dismay, Colin Keith - out of the noble but misplaced sense of duty peculiar to high-minded young university graduates - chooses to quit his training for the Bar and take a teaching job at Southbridge School. Little does Colin imagine that he will count among his pupils the demon in human ...Show more
The Brandons: A Virago Modern Classic by Angela Thirkell
Category: Fiction | Series: Vmc Ser.
The irresistible Brandons, their friends, and their servants are full of youthful nonsense and middle-aged folly. People will fall in love with the wrong person, and all are determined to misunderstand each other. Like Barbara Pym, E. F. Benson, and Jane Austen herself, Angela Thirkell has created a sma ...Show more
The Headmistress by Angela Thirkell
Category: Fiction | Series: Vmc Ser.
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: she dresses as a headmistress should and is an easy an ...Show more
The Old Bank House by Angela Thirkell
Category: Classics | Series: Barsetshire Ser.
'Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself' - Alexander McCall Smith Edgewood Rectory may be set in an ancient landscape, but the Grantly family are very much of their time. Caught up in the uncertain world that has emerg ...Show more
Wild Strawberries by Angela Thirkell; Alexander McCall Smith (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A witty romp through English Country-house life at its most delightfully absurd. At Rushwater House in West Barsetshire, Lady Emily Leslie and her family are entertaining an assortment of house guests, hangers-on, and French monarchists. Amid a perfect welter of rapturous embraces and moonlight madness, ...Show more