Northbridge Rectory
10 best books like Northbridge Rectory (Angela Thirkell): Strong Poison, Unnatural Death, Quartet in Autumn, My Brother Michael, Paradise Lodge, Henrietta's War: News from the Home Front 1939-1942, Henrietta Sees It Through: More News from the Home Front 1942-1945, The Floating Admiral, Jane and Prudence, The Brontës Went to Woolworths
| Author | Dorothy L. Sayers |
| ISBN | 0060809086 |
I'm sorry, Hercule Poirot. There's a new literary detective in my life, and while I will always cherish your silly Belgian antics, Lord Peter Wimsey just understands my needs better - he makes me laugh so much more than you do, and he has that sincerity that you lack.
Now don't cry, Hercule. It's...
| Author | Dorothy L. Sayers |
| ISBN | 0061043583 |
The wealthy Agatha Dawson is dead--a trifle sooner than expected--but there are no apparent signs of foul play. Lord Peter Wimsey, however, senses that something is amiss and refuses to let the case rest--even without any clues or leads. Suddenly, he is faced with another murder: Agatha's maid. Can...
| Author | Barbara Pym |
| ISBN | 0330326481 |
This was recommended to me by various bloggers and certainly lived up to their praise. Originally published in 1977, this was Pym’s seventh novel out of nine; she died in 1980. It’s about four London office workers, all sixty-somethings who are partnerless and don’t have, or at least don’t...
| Author | Mary Stewart |
| ISBN | 0380820757 |
ONLY A MOMENT BEFORE
Camilla Haven is on holiday alone, and wishes for some excitement. She had been sitting quietly in a crowded Athens cafe writing to her friend Elizabeth in England, "Nothing ever happens to me..."
Then, without warning, a stranger approached, thrust a set of car...
| Author | Nina Stibbe |
| ISBN | 0241974925 |
This is the story of Lizzie Vogel, a 15 year old girl who finds herself working in an old people's home in Leicestershire in the 1970s. The place is in chaos and it's not really a suitable job for a schoolgirl: she'd only gone for the job because she wanted a new phase and it seemed too exhausting to commit to...
| Author | Joyce Dennys |
| ISBN | 1408802813 |
Spirited Henrietta wishes she was the kind of doctor's wife who knew exactly how to deal with the daily upheavals of war. But then, everyone in her close-knit Devonshire village seems to find different ways to cope: there's the indomitable Lady B, who writes to Hitler every night to tell him precisely...
Henrietta Sees It Through: More News from the Home Front 1942-1945
| Author | Joyce Dennys |
| ISBN | 1608195163 |
World War II is now in its third year and although nothing can dent the unwavering patriotism of Henrietta and her friends, everyone in the Devonshire village has their anxious moments. Henrietta takes up weeding and plays the triangle in the local orchestra to take her mind off things; the indomitable...
Inspector Rudge does not encounter many cases of murder in the sleepy seaside town of Whynmouth. But when an old sailor lands a rowing boat containing a fresh corpse with a stab wound to the chest, the Inspector's investigation immediately comes up against several obstacles. The vicar, whose boat the...
| Author | Barbara Pym |
| ISBN | 1559212268 |
If Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates seem an unlikely pair to be walking together at an Oxford reunion, neither of them are aware of it. They couldn't be more different: Jane is a rather incompetent vicar's wife, who always looks as if she is about to feed the chickens, while Prudence, a pristine hothouse...
The Brontës Went to Woolworths
| Author | Rachel Ferguson |
| ISBN | 1608190536 |
'How I loathe that kind of novel which is about a lot of sisters'; so proclaims Deirdre at the beginning of The Brontës Went to Woolworths, one of three sisters.
London, 1931. As growing up looms large in the lives of the Carne sisters, Deirdre, Katrine and young Sheil still share an insatiable...
Mystery writer Harriet Vane, recovering from an unhappy love affair and its aftermath, seeks solace on a barren beach -- deserted but for the body of a bearded young man with his throat cut.
From the moment she photographs the corpse, which soon disappears with the tide, she is puzzled by a mystery...
