Miss Read

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....

Dorothy Watson and Agnes Fogerty have taught at the school for as long as anyone can remember, but now they're thinking and talking about retirement. It won't be an easy adjustment....

Fairacre is a village of cottages....

‘As I have been given a large and magnificent diary for Christmas... I intend to fill it in as long as my ardour lasts.’ Luckily, Miss Read’s ardour lasts all year, encompassing every aspect of Fairacre life....

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

The village schoolmistress, Miss Read, greets retirement with excitement, and settles down to endless lazy days, but her idyll is interrupted....

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....

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

The people of Fairacre are up in arms about the possible closure of the village school. This anxious time for Miss Read is made bearable by the support of all her friends and neighbours....

Having enjoyed robust health throughout her career, Miss Read, the village schoolmistress at Fairacre, is looking forward to an energetic retirement in a few years' time.....

After the death of Emily Davis, school teacher and well-loved member of the local community, many of those who knew her cast their minds back to days past and to their memories of Emily....

A mouse's appearance on Christmas Eve in a widow's bedroom leads to a chance encounter with a small boy....

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

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

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....

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

In Village Diary, Miss Read describes the people of Fairacre with exactitude, a sense of comedy, and sharp observation....

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

The two-hundred-year-old cottages known as Tyler’s Row....

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