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A Study Guide for H. E. Bates’s Daffodil Sky, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
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The horror and the humanity of war come too close, when a little fishing boat, the Breadwinner, rescues a pilot shot down in the Channel during a dogfight. The only…
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In the final book of the series that began with The Darling Buds of May, the fun-loving Pop Larkin finds himself confined to a bed following a mild heart attack…
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In the third sequel to The Darling Buds of May, Charley and Mariette decide to get baby Blenheim christened, leading to a wholesale christening of all seven of the Larkin…
This play version of the H.E. Bates novel centres on the Larkin family, who live in Kent somewhere at the end of a rainbow . When an ernest young tax…
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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.
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Betrayed by her lover, Bella Ford sets out on a journey to find him and exact her revenge. Instead, her search brings her to the home of the Wainwright family…
Introducing the Larkins, a family with a place in popular mythology. Here they come, crashing their way through the English countryside in the wake of Pa, the quick-eyed, golden-hearted junk-dealer…
A story about the bleak and unforgiving nature of insomnia, of restlessness, repressed passion and dislocation. Orlingford is a town where it is hard to differentiate between pleasure and pain…
Three romantic novellas by a master of English literature.
Four evocative short stories by a master storyteller.
When Cedric Charlton, an unsuspecting tax inspector, arrives at the door of the Pop Larkin farm, he soon forgets the purpose of his visit: the fun-loving Ma and Pop Larkin…
Tells the story of three very different men who, after their aircraft crashes, are forced to trek across the Burmese wilderness to safety.
A visitor: one Cedric Charlton, Her Majesty’s inspector of taxes is visiting to find out why junk-dealer Pop hasn’t paid his tax. Mariette takes a shine to ‘Charley’ - as…
Fair Stood the Wind for France, first published in 1944, is author H. E. Bates' fictional account of a downed English bomber-pilot and his crew over occupied France during World…
‘I should like to go to France,’ said Ma. And so at the end of a rainy English August the Larkins - all ten of them, bundle into the old…
‘Teetotal!’ Ma said. ‘It’s a libel. Whatever will people think? What’s he going to say when anybody asks him to have one?’ No, said Dr Conner. And so after a…
With a letter announcing the imminent arrival of Madame Dupont, Pop and Ma Larkin learn that little Oscar and Blenheim - are to be christened. Pop, who needs no excuse…
Pop Larkin - junk-dealer, manages to sell the nearby crumbling, tumbling country home to city dwellers Mr and Mrs Jerebohm. But the Larkin’s new neighbours aren’t quite so accepting of…
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…
Readers who have discovered the delights of the British master storyteller H.E. Bates in A Month by the Lake and A Party for the Girls (published by New Directions in…
Details the difficulties encountered in defending against night-time intruders.
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During World War II, a small English community are forced to flee when Japanese forces invade Burma. Paterson, the manager of a rice-mill, organises the evacuation and takes with him…
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Over the course of ninety-five years, Uncle Silas found the time to do most things: he boasted of the villains he had knocked to kingdom come as he boasted of…
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Presents heroic stories of the exploits of British pilots during the Second World War.
Tells a tale of love and longing, set against the backdrop of 1920s decadence, and the fall of the English upper classes.
In the final book of the series that began with The Darling Buds of May, the fun-loving Pop Larkin finds himself confined to bed following a mild heart attack–caused by…
