Author: Angela Thirkell
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Pomfret Towers: A Virago Modern Classic
Angela ThirkellCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Pomfret Towers, Barsetshire seat of the earls of Pomfret, was constructed, with great pomp and want of concern for creature comforts, in the once-f...
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Marling Hall
Angela ThirkellCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York TimesMr Marling, of Marling Ha...
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Wild Strawberries: A Virago Modern Classic
Angela ThirkellCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Pretty, impecunious Mary Preston, newly arrived as a guest of her Aunt Agnes at the magnificent wooded estate of Rushwater, falls head over heels f...
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Peace Breaks Out
Angela ThirkellCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York TimesIt is 1945. When peace br...
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Growing Up
Angela ThirkellCurrent price €14.55Original price €15.99''Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself'' Alexander McCall S...
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The Headmistress
Angela ThirkellCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Barsetshire in the latter years of the Second World War is a peaceful and gossipy place, but there has been one lively change. A girls' school, eva...
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Summer Half: A Virago Modern Classic
Angela ThirkellCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99To his parents' dismay, Colin Keith - out of the noble but misplaced sense of duty peculiar to high-minded young university graduates - chooses to ...
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Northbridge Rectory
Angela ThirkellCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99As the war continues it brings its own set of trials to the the village of Northbridge. Eight officers of the Barsetshire Regiment have been billet...
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Miss Bunting
Angela ThirkellCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99Barsetshire in the war years. Miss Bunting, governess of choice to generations of Barsetshire aristocracy, has been coaxed out of retirement by Si...
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August Folly: A Virago Modern Classic
Angela ThirkellCurrent price €15.46Original price €16.99It's August in the Barsetshire village of Worsted, and Richard Tebben, just down from Oxford, is contemplating the gloomy prospect of a long summer...
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The Brandons: A Virago Modern Classic
Angela ThirkellCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Lavinia Brandon is quite the loveliest widow in Barsetshire, blessed with beauty and grace, as well as two handsome grown-up children, Delia and Fr...
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High Rising: A Virago Modern Classic
Angela ThirkellCurrent price €15.46Original price €16.99Successful lady novelist Laura Morland and her boisterous young son Tony set off to spend Christmas at her country home in the sleepy surrounds of ...
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Before Lunch
Angela ThirkellCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Jack Middleton likes to imagine himself a country squire. At weekends he retires to Laverings Estate with his wife, Catherine. He may be pompous, a...
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Three Houses
Angela ThirkellCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99There is always in our minds the hope that we may find again those golden unhastening days and wake up and dream. - Angela Thirkell Angela Thirke...
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Christmas at High Rising: A Virago Modern Classic
Angela ThirkellCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Originally published in the 1930s and 1940s and never before collected, these stories by the incomparable Angela Thirkell relate merry scenes of a ...
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Cheerfulness Breaks In
Angela ThirkellCurrent price €15.46Original price €16.99'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York TimesIt is summer 1939 and the...
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