Miss Read

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

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....

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

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....

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

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

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

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

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....

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

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....

Miss Read heard about the sale of Tyler's Row from the always well-informed Mrs Pringle - and before long Fairacre was alive with rumours as to why the present owners were selling....

It's the May Day holiday, and a fair has come to the village of Thrush Green. The residents of Thrush Green all have their own views about the fair....

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

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

As spring begins at Thrush Green, a series of local dramas takes hold of the community....

On a blustery day in Fairacre, Miss Clare sees two strangers "pacing slowly, side by side, along the edge of Hundred Acre Field, which lay on the other side of Miss Clare's garden hedge....

In Village Diary, Miss Read describes the people of Fairacre with exactitude, a sense of comedy, and sharp observation....