Miss Clare Remembers and Emily Davis
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 would remain close throughout their long lives, eventually sharing a cottage in their retirement. They felt grief when a village family was lost on the Titanic. They each experienced young love and then heartbreak when the First World War interrupted both of their romances. The triumphs and tragedies of their days are depicted with all the humor, heartbreak, and human warmth for which Miss Read is known, providing a sensitive portrait of life in the country.
Christmas at Thrush Green
A heartwarming, nostalgic Christmas novel, set in a beautiful Cotswold village 'There is something profoundly consoling about a novel by Miss Read' The Lady 'Sometimes funny, sometimes touching, always appealing' New York Times The villagers of Th...
Fresh from the Country
'I'm looking for two really trustworthy rabbits and six sensible clear-speaking frogs ' Young Anna Lacey has spent most of her life on a farm in Essex. But her first teaching position carries her to an unattractive, newly constructed suburb where she has to adjust to cramped lodgings, a skinflint landlady, overcrowded classrooms, and eccentric colleagues ('a rum lot'). She must also adapt some of her idealistic theories of teaching to the realities of her energetic, exuberant pupils. Fans of Miss Read's much-loved Thrush Green and Fairacre novels will be delighted with this tale of a young woman's first year of teaching, and perhaps also surprised by its sharp, funny portrayals of the foibles of human nature. Anna experiences some disappointments and uncertainties, but her practicality, determination and sense of humour see her through. This new edition of Fresh from the Country features an introduction by Jill Saint, the author's daughter. 'A delightful book full of accurate detail
Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England
In early modern English medicine, the balance of fluids in the body was seen as key to health. Menstruation was widely believed to regulate blood levels in the body and so was extensively discussed in medical texts. Sara Read examines all forms of...
Stalin
This new biography of Stalin offers an accessible and up-to-date representation of one of the twentieth-century's defining figures, as well as new insights, analysis and illumination to deepen our understanding of his actions, intentions and the n...
Modern Architecture in Theatre
If the city is the theatre of urban life, how does architecture act in its many performances? This book reconstructs the spatial experiments of Art et Action, a theatre troupe active in 1920s Paris, and how their designs for theater buildings show...
Naturalist's Guide to the Insects of Britain and Northern Europe (2nd edition)
This easy-to-use identification guide to 280 insect species most commonly seen in Britain and northern Europe is perfect for amateur naturalists. High quality photographs from Britain's top nature photographers are accompanied by detailed species ...
Assessing Vocabulary
The study of vocabulary is a flourishing area in applied linguistics and language teaching, which is creating a need for new approaches to vocabulary assessment. This volume presents a framework that expands the traditional concept of a vocabulary...
Stalin
This new biography of Stalin offers an accessible and up-to-date representation of one of the twentieth-century's defining figures, as well as new insights, analysis and illumination to deepen our understanding of his actions, intentions and the n...
Wittgenstein's Liberatory Philosophy
In this book, Rupert Read offers the first outline of a resolute reading, following the highly influential New Wittgenstein 'school', of the Philosophical Investigations. He argues that the key to understanding Wittgenstein's later philosophy is t...
Communication Patterns
Having a great idea or design is not enough to make your software project succeed. If you want stakeholders to buy into your design and teams to collaborate and contribute to the vision, you also need to communicate effectively. In this practical ...
Lenin
From a highly distinguished author on the subject, this biography is an excellent scholarly introduction to one of the key figures of the Russian Revolution and post-Tsarist Russia. Not only does it make use of archive material made newly availabl...
Lenin
From a highly distinguished author on the subject, this biography is an excellent scholarly introduction to one of the key figures of the Russian Revolution and post-Tsarist Russia. Not only does it make use of archive material made newly availabl...
Battles at Thrush Green
The peace of a beautiful Cotswold village is about to be disturbed... From the bestselling author of THE VILLAGE SCHOOL.
Classic FM 100 Favourite Poems
Classic FM One Hundred Favourite Poems is a rich and varied treasury which includes not only the famous, best-loved poems you would expect to find - and all the famous poets - but also some wonderful, less well-known works. This is a selection tha...
Compendium of Modern Instrumental Techniques
An important characteristic of contemporary art music has been the use of conventional instruments in unconventional ways, achieving effects undreamed of or thought impossible in the early twentieth century. This compendium codifies these techniqu...
New Avengers
A study of the rape-revenge film, in which Jacinda Read suggests that the rape-revenge cycle can be read as one of the primary ways in which Hollywood has attempted to make sense of feminism and the changing shape of heterosexual femininity in the...
Invisible Boy
The smart-mouthed but sensitive runaway socialite Madeline Dare is shocked when she discovers the skeleton of a brutalized three-year-old boy in her own weed-ridden family cemetery outside Manhattan. Determined to see that justice is served to the...
Iron Sea
The sea had become a mass grave by 1941 as Hitler's four capital warships--Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Tirpitz, and Bismarck, the largest warship on the ocean--roamed the wind-swept waves, threatening the Allied war effort and sending thousands of men...
War and Revolution in Russia, 1914-22
This¿essential introduction¿synthesises the wealth of new material available on the¿Russian Revolution¿into a clear¿overview which is ideal for beginners. Leading expert Christopher Read¿treats the period 1914-22 as a whole in order to contextuali...
An Atlas of Graphs
Graph theory is a fast-developing discipline and has, over the past few decades, been seen to have important applications, particularly in operations research and in computer science. For this reason there is a need for a reference in the area, co...
Village Diary
The second Fairacre novel, from the bestselling author of VILLAGE SCHOOL. In her first book VILLAGE SCHOOL, Miss Read drew a picture of the small but detailed world of a typical primary school in a remote country area, a world peopled by the child...
Over the Gate
A wonderfully nostalgic and entertaining novel of village life from the bestselling author of VILLAGE SCHOOL. 'The story of the village goes back a long, long time, and it still goes on. I have listened to my neighbours' accounts of tales long ago...
Farther Afield
A delightfully nostalgic novel set in the Cotswold village of Fairacre novel from the author of VILLAGE SCHOOL 'Delicious wit, quirky characters, the colourful intrigues of daily life, and certainly love and laughter ... delightful' bestselling au...
Year at Thrush Green
An enchanting story of village life from the bestselling author of the FAIRACRE series. January has been bitterly cold in Thrush Green. But at last the winter seems to be melting into a beautiful spring. But with the warmer weather comes a series ...