Pastoral fiction

  • Hotel Pastis: A Novel of Provence

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    With his national bestsellers A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence, Peter Mayle gave new meaning to the phrase “great escape”. Now he has written a delightful novel of romance, adventure, and tong… [more below]

    • Author: Mayle, Peter
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: November 08 1994
    • ISBN10: 0679751114
    • Language: English
  • The Wind in the Willows

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    One of the best-known classics of children’s literature, a timeless masterpiece and a vital portrait of an age, The Wind in the Willows began originally in Kenneth Grahame’s letters to his young son, … [more below]

  • Wily O’Reilly: Irish Country Stories

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    Long before Dr. Fingal Flahertie O’Reilly made most readers’ acquaintance in Patrick Taylor’s bestselling novel An Irish Country Doctor, he appeared in a series of humorous columns originally publishe

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    • Series: Irish Country Books
    • Author: Taylor, Patrick
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: February 24 2015
    • ISBN10: 0765338394
    • Language: English
  • By: Read

    Storm in the Village

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    Trouble brews in the tiny country village of Fairacre when it is discovered that Farmer Miller’s Hundred Acre Field is slated for real estate development. Alarming rumors are circulating, among them t

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    • Author: Read
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: November 27 2012
    • ISBN10: 0618884165
    • Language: English
  • By: Read

    Winter in Thrush Green

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    In the follow-up to Thrush Green, the arrival of a stranger in the village stirs ripples of speculation and interest.

    • Series: Thrush Green
    • Author: Read
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: December 01 2008
    • ISBN10: 0618884394
    • Language: English
  • By: Read

    A Peaceful Retirement

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    Open the gate to Fairacre, America’s favorite English village.

    Having bid a last farewell to her pupils at Fairacre School, Miss Read settles down to what she hopes will be a relaxing retirement. It i

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    • Series: Fairacre
    • Author: Read
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: November 07 2007
    • ISBN10: 0618884386
    • Language: English
  • By: Read

    Mrs. Pringle of Fairacre

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    Through the eyes of many Fairacre friends, we trace Mrs. Pringle’s life and her stormy standing as the redoubtable cleaner of the town’s school. However maddening she is, life at Fairacre would be poo

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    • Author: Read
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: November 09 2001
    • ISBN10: 0618155880
    • Language: English
  • Irish Country Girl

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    Readers of Patrick Taylor’s books know Mrs. Kinky Kincaid as the unflappable housekeeper who looks after two frequently frazzled town doctors in the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo. A trusted

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    • Series: Irish Country Books #4
    • Author: Taylor, Patrick
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: January 04 2011
    • ISBN10: 0765320738
    • Language: English
  • By: Read

    Miss Clare Remembers and Emily Davis

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    In the English village of Fairacre, the retired schoolteachers Dolly Clare and Emily Davis enjoyed a remarkable friendship, as this moving volume reveals. Childhood playmates in Beech Green, they woul

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    • Series: Fairacre
    • Author: Read
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 448
    • Publish Date: April 29 2011
    • ISBN10: 0618884343
    • Language: English
  • By: Read

    Over the Gate

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    Throughout her years as schoolmistress, Miss Read has gathered excellent accounts of the rich and varied history of her beloved country village, often through neighborly conversation over the gate. Fa… [more below]

    • Author: Read
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: August 01 2007
    • ISBN10: 0618884173
    • Language: English
  • The Meadow

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    An American Library Association Notable Book

    In discrete disclosures joined with the intricacy of a spider’s web, James Galvin depicts the hundred-year history of a meadow in the arid mountains of the

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    • Author: Galvin, James
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: April 15 1993
    • ISBN10: 0805027033
    • Language: English
  • I Am One of You Forever

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    Wonderfully funny and also deeply touching, I Am One of You Forever is the story of a young boy’s coming of age. Set in the hills and hollows of western North Carolina in the years around World War II

    • Author: Chappell, Fred
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 184
    • Publish Date: July 01, 1987
    • ISBN10: 0807114103
    • Language: English
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