Author: Stella Gibbons

Wilfred Davis, quiet, retired, respectable widower, is sitting and sobbing on a park bench. He has lost his daughter and any sense of purpose. A my...

Brother and sister, Constance and Kenneth Fielding live in calm respectability, just out of reach of London and the Blitz. But when a series of uni...

When Nell Sely moves from sleepy Dorset to Hampstead she leaves behind a childhood of dull teas and oppressive rules for the freedom of the big cit...

Indulge in a feel-good collection of stories from the author of Cold Comfort Farm.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITHThe title story tel...

Uprooted from war-torn London, Alda Lucie-Brown and her three daughters start a new life at Pine Cottage in rural Sussex. Unsuited to a quiet life,...

''Don''t show proper feelin'', does it, not turnin'' up for ''is dad''s funeral?''Siblings Sophia, Harry and Francis have lost both their parents i...

Robert Poste's child is back at Cold Comfort Farm. But all is not well. Flora finds the farm transformed into a twee haven filled with Toby jugs an...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''Brilliant ... very probably the funniest book ever written' Sunday TimesWhen sensible, sophisti...

Gladys and Annie Barnes are impoverished sisters who have seen better times. They live in a modest cottage in the backstreets of Highate with Mr Fi...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY LYNNE TRUSS'Stella Gibbons is the Jane Austen of the twentieth century' The TimesSet in wartime London, Westwood tells the ...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women SelectionA hilarious and merciless parody ...

Creepy. Peculiar. Fairy. Goblin. Liar. Weirdo. Crank. Genius.No one knows what to make of Juliet Slater, not even her mother. And clothes, boys, sc...