Miss Read

When Charles Henstock, rector of Thrush Green, moves a mile downhill to the parish of Lulling, his many friends rejoice in his promotion....

Summer at Fairacre charmingly recounts this bright, bustling season and the problems and possibilities that unfold against the backdrop of roses, skylarks and bees....

Fairacre is a village of cottages, a church and the school, and at the heart of the school, its head mistress, Miss Read....

A new excitement comes to the village of Thrush Green when Harold Shoosmith, a distinguished bachelor....

It's the May Day holiday, and a fair has come to the village of Thrush Green. The residents of Thrush Green all have their own views about the fair....

There are new people on the Green... When old Admiral Trigg and his sister Lucy died, their house - Tullivers - stood empty for many months....

The end of the school year often brings unmitigated rapture for schoolteachers, and so it should for Miss Read....

Gossip From Thrush Green returns readers to that delightful English village, neighbour to Fairacre, for a golden summer....

Charles Henstock, vicar of Thrush Green, is living in his new vicarage after the old one burned down. In its place are eight retirement homes, but there’s heated debate in the village about the new residents....

Illegal battering of gingernuts and conkers in a murky corner of the playground; a procession of bearers of lost property interrupting the telling of the story of Joseph....

Anna Lacey had spent most of her 20 years on her Essex farm. She was not prepared her for the shock of relocation to a raw new neighbourhood....

Fairacre is a village of cottages....

Nestled in the heart of the Cotswolds, Thrush Green is normally a peaceful place....

As spring begins at Thrush Green, a series of local dramas takes hold of the community....

A delightful Christmas collection of Fairacre tales from the ever-popular Miss Read. Read by Carole Boyd with an introduction read by Miss Read....

The Howards of Caxley begins on a fine May morning in the fateful year of 1939....

The first charming Caxley tale introduces the deep-rooted camaraderie between Septimus Howard....

The Cotswold village of Thrush Green is a particularly close-knit community, where many of the inhabitants have known each other since childhood....

Mrs Pringle, the lugubrious school cleaner, has always been a favourite character in the Fairacre series....

The villagers of Thrush Green celebrate Christmas traditionally, in a way that has hardly changed over the generations. But not everything is as peaceful as it seems....