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A Breath of French Air by H. E. Bates
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Pop Larkin Chronicles Ser.
The Larkins travel to France for some sun and relaxation--only to be met with disaster--in this comic classic by the author of The Darling Buds of May. At summer's end, rain clouds hovering over Kent have some in the Larkin household feeling under the weather in more ways than one. Ma is exhausted from ...Show more
A Breath of French Air (#2 Pop Larkin) by H.E. Bates
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Larkin Family Ser.
'I should like to go to France,' said Ma. 'God Almighty,' Pop said. 'What for?' 'For a holiday of course,' Ma said. 'I think it would do us all good to get some sun.' And so at the end of a rainy English August the Larkins - all ten of them, including little Oscar, the family's new addition - bundle int ...Show more
Fair Stood the Wind for France by H.E. Bates
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
When John Franklin brings his plane down into Occupied France at the height of the Second World war, there are two things in his mind - the safety of his crew and his own badly injured arm. It is a stroke of unbelievable luck when the family of a French farmer risk their lives to offer the airmen protec ...Show more
How Sleep the Brave by H. E. Bates
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
He was without an equal in England in the kind of story he had made his own and stood in the direct line of succession of fiction writers of English countryside and that includes George Eliot, Hardy and D. H. Lawrence. First published under the pseudonym of Flying Officer S, H. E. Bates's heroic sto ...Show more
In the Heart of the Country by H. E. Bates
Category: History
A beautifully written and wonderfully evocative volume offering descriptive imagery of rural England; the countryside and its people.
Little Of What You Fancy, A by H.E Bates
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Pop Larkin Chronicles Ser.
'Teetotal!' Ma said. 'It's a libel. He'll never live it down. He'll never be able to hold his head up again. Whatever will people think? What's he going to say when anybody asks him to have one?' ' 'No,' ' said Dr Conner. 'You'll have to strap him down,' Ma said. 'You'll have to put the handcuffs on.' ...Show more
Little of What You Fancy by H. E. Bates
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Larkin Family Ser.
'Teetotal!' Ma said. 'It's a libel. He'll never live it down. He'll never be able to hold his head up again. Whatever will people think? What's he going to say when anybody asks him to have one?' 'No,' said Dr Conner. 'You'll have to strap him down,' Ma said. 'You'll have to put the handcuffs on.' And s ...Show more
Love for Lydia by H.E Bates
Category: Fiction
Lydia Aspen, a seemingly shy girl from a wealthy but isolated background, is encouraged by her aunts, her new carers, to discover the delights of growing up. They entrust her education to Mr Richardson, the young apprentice for Evenford's local newspaper, who is sent to their house to 'get a story' abou ...Show more
Love for Lydia by H. E. Bates
Category: Classic | Series: The\Great Writers Library
'An honest and skillfully told love story' - New York TimesLydia - shy, sheltered, beautiful and just nineteen - glides into Evensford one wintry day, stirring up feeling amongst the town's young men. But it is the young Mr Richardson that she befriends. As winter turns to drowsy summer, his world becom ...Show more
My Uncle Silas by H. E. Bates
Category: Classic Fiction
The deeds and misdeeds of Uncle Silas, the rural reprobate, were renowned in the short stories H E Bates published in the 1930s.In this collection the stories are presented in full, accompanied by the original drawings by Edward Ardizzone that perfectly capture the little reed-thatched house atop a viol ...Show more
Oh! To Be In England by H.E Bates
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Pop Larkin Chronicles Ser.
'Christening? We never said nothing about no christening, Ma, did we?' And so with the appearance of a letter announcing the imminent arrival of Madame Dupont, Pop and Ma Larkin learn that little Oscar and Blenheim - Charley and Mariette's new boy - are to be christened. In fact, once Mr Candy - who wil ...Show more