Miss Read

The people of Fairacre are up in arms about the possible closure of the village school. This anxious time for Miss Read is made bearable by the support of all her friends and neighbours....

When Charles Henstock, rector of Thrush Green, moves a mile downhill to the parish of Lulling, his many friends rejoice in his promotion....

The village schoolmistress, Miss Read, greets retirement with excitement, and settles down to endless lazy days, but her idyll is interrupted....

The villagers of Thrush Green celebrate Christmas traditionally, in a way that has hardly changed over the generations. But not everything is as peaceful as it seems....

Charles Henstock, vicar of Thrush Green, is living in his new vicarage after the old one burned down. In its place are eight retirement homes, but there’s heated debate in the village about the new residents....

Gossip From Thrush Green returns readers to that delightful English village, neighbour to Fairacre, for a golden summer....

Summer at Fairacre charmingly recounts this bright, bustling season and the problems and possibilities that unfold against the backdrop of roses, skylarks and bees....

‘As I have been given a large and magnificent diary for Christmas... I intend to fill it in as long as my ardour lasts.’ Luckily, Miss Read’s ardour lasts all year, encompassing every aspect of Fairacre life....

Fairacre is a village of cottages....

A new excitement comes to the village of Thrush Green when Harold Shoosmith, a distinguished bachelor....

There are new people on the Green... When old Admiral Trigg and his sister Lucy died, their house - Tullivers - stood empty for many months....

A delightful Christmas collection of Fairacre tales from the ever-popular Miss Read. Read by Carole Boyd with an introduction read by Miss Read....

Anna Lacey had spent most of her 20 years on her Essex farm. She was not prepared her for the shock of relocation to a raw new neighbourhood....

The Howards of Caxley begins on a fine May morning in the fateful year of 1939....

Fairacre is a village of cottages, a church and the school, and at the heart of the school, its head mistress, Miss Read....

The Cotswold village of Thrush Green is a particularly close-knit community, where many of the inhabitants have known each other since childhood....

The first charming Caxley tale introduces the deep-rooted camaraderie between Septimus Howard....

Mrs Pringle, the lugubrious school cleaner, has always been a favourite character in the Fairacre series....

Nestled in the heart of the Cotswolds, Thrush Green is normally a peaceful place....

The two-hundred-year-old cottages known as Tyler’s Row....