This colourful, perceptive portrayal of English country life reverberates with the voices of the village inhabitants, from the reminiscences of survivors of the Great War evoking days gone by, to the concerns of a younger generation of farm-workers and the fascinating and personal recollections of, among others, the local schoolteacher, doctor, blacksmith, saddler, district nurse and magistrate. .

This is a new edition of Elizabeth Gaskell's witty and poignant comedy of early-Victorian life in a country town. A lively and up-to-date introduction by Charlotte Mitchell discusses the originality and subtlety of the book's treatment of women's experience.

A superstar cartoonist from Malaysia. 'Kampung Boy' has been made into a cartoon series that airs daily on Nickelodeon in Asia.

The peace of the Cotswold village of Thrush Green is about to be disturbed...

Change is afoot in the beautiful Cotswold village of Thrush Green...

A delightful Christmas collection of Fairacre tales from the ever-popular Miss Read.

The second Fairacre novel, from the bestselling author of VILLAGE SCHOOL.

After a long winter, summer is a welcome time for Miss Read and her village friends.

Now that the village school has been saved from closure, Miss Read is looking forward to a few more years of teaching before her retirement. When her health lets her down, however, it seems that the decision is taken out of her hands once more and she reluctantly leaves the school.

Another entertaining slice of Fairacre life from the bestselling author of VILLAGE SCHOOL.

The Sunday Times bestseller that is David Mitchell's most enjoyable novel yet

Spring has arrived in the beautiful village of Thrush Green - but problems are never far away.

The very first Miss Read Fairacre novel.

Satish Kumar has been a wandering Jain monk, worked on Vinoba Bhave's campaign for land reform, undertaken an 8000-mile pilgrimage from India to America and guided a number of British ecological, spiritual and educational ventures. This is his account of his extraordinary life.

The second novel in the bestselling Thrush Green series.

Written by a mountaineer who in 1993, after a terrifying and disastrous attempt to climb K2, drifted cold and dehydrated, into an impoverished Pakistan village in the Karakoram Mountains. It tells how moved by the inhabitants' kindness, he promised to return and build a school. It tells the story of that promise and its outcome.

A row of cottages comes up for sale in Fairacre - although with less than desirable tenants at either end, who could possibly want to buy it?

The first novel in the multi-award-winning Canadian crime series featuring Chief Inspector Gamache of the Surete du Quebec and set in the picturesque village of Three Pines

In the summer of 1920 two men, both war survivors meet in the quiet English countryside. One is living in the church, intent upon uncovering and restoring an historical wall painting while the other camps in the next field in search of a lost grave.