When Bertie Wooster goes to Totleigh Towers to pour oil on the troubled waters of a lovers' breach between Madeline Bassett and Gussie Fink-Nottle, he isn't expecting to see Aunt Dahlia - nor to be instructed by her to steal silver. But purloining the antique cow creamer from under the nose of Sir Watkyn Bassett is the least of Bertie's tasks.

Published in the last year of Barbara Pym's life, 'A Few Green Leaves' combines the rural settings of her earliest novels with the themes and characters of her later works. The result is a compelling portrait of a town that seems to be forgotten by time, but which is unmistakably affected by it. Romance shares the pages with death in this engaging novel that is the culmination of Barbara Pym's ...

'One of her very best - comic, heartrending, brave; in short, like life itself' Shirley Hazzard

This novel tells of the Brandons of Stories and Brandon Abbey. It is set and written just before the start of WW2. It contains a soft humour and strong character development of character with both large and small roles. The ordeals of matchmaking, marriage, death and inheritance are all included here.

A classic collection of linked stories featuring some of the funniest episodes in the life of Bertie Wooster, gentleman, and Jeeves, his gentleman's gentleman - in which Bertie's terrifying Aunt Agatha stalks the pages, seeking whom she may devour, while Bertie's friend Bingo Little falls in love with seven different girls in succession.

Captures the foibles and fancies of the English upper class. Set in the privileged world of the county house party and the London season, this is a comedy of English manners.