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Miss Read

(Dora Saint)

(1913 - )

About Miss Read

The prolific Miss Read is Mrs. Dora Saint, whose novels draw on her own memories of living and teaching in a small Enlish village. She and her husband, a retired schoolmaster, have one daughter and enjoy a quiet life in Berkshire.

New and Forthcoming Paperbacks

This Year at Thrush Green
(Thrush Green)

Series

Fairacre
Village School (1955)
Village Diary (1957)
Storm in the Village (1958)
Over the Gate (1964)
Village Christmas (1966)
The Fairacre Festival (1968)
Chronicles of Fairacre: Village School / Village Diary / Storm in the Village (1972)
Tyler's Row (1972)
The Christmas Mouse (1973)
Farther Afield (1974)
Village Affairs (1977)
Village Centenary (1980)
Summer at Fairacre (1984)
Further Chronicles of Fairacre (omnibus) (1985)
Mrs. Pringle (1989)
Fairacre Roundabout: Tyler's Row / Farther Afield / Village Affairs (omnibus) (1990)
Miss Read's Christmas Tales: Village Christmas / Christmas Mouse (omnibus) (1990)
Changes at Fairacre (1991)
Christmas at Fairacre: Village Christmas / Christmas Mouse / No Holly for Miss Quinn (omnibus) (1991)
Miss Read Chronicles Giftset: Chronicles of Fairacre / Further Chronicles of Fairacre (omnibus) (1992)
Farewell to Fairacre (1993)
Village Christmas / The Christmas Mouse (omnibus) (1993)
A Peaceful Retirement (1996)
Fairacre Affairs Omnibus: Village Centenary / Summer At Fairacre (omnibus) (1997)
The Last Chronicle of Fairacre: Changes at Fairacre / Farewell to Fairacre / A Peaceful Retirement (omnibus) (2001)
Storm in the Village / The Fairacre Festival (omnibus) (2002)
Christmas Mouse / Village Christmas (omnibus) (2003)
The Caxley Chronicles (2007)
Miss Clare Remembers / Emily Davis (omnibus) (2007)

Thrush Green
Thrush Green (1959)
Winter in Thrush Green (1961)
News from Thrush Green (1970)
Battles at Thrush Green (1975)
Return to Thrush Green (1978)
Gossip from Thrush Green (1981)
Affairs at Thrush Green (1983)
Life at Thrush Green: Thrush Green / Winter in Thrush Green / News from Thrush Green (omnibus) (1984)
At Home in Thrush Green (1985)
More Stories from Thrush Green: Battles at Thrush Green / "Return to Thrush Green / Gossip from Thrush Green (omnibus) (1985)
The School at Thrush Green (1987)
The World of Thrush Green (1988)
Friends at Thrush Green (1990)
Celebrations at Thrush Green (1992)
Tales from Thrush Green: Affairs at Thrush Green / At Home in Thrush Green (omnibus) (1994)
Selected Works of Miss Read (omnibus) (1995)
A Year at Thrush Green (1995)
Encounters at Thrush Green Omnibus: The School at Thrush Green / Friends at Thrush Green (omnibus) (1998)
The Villagers of Thrush Green (1999)
Farewell, Thrush Green: Celebrations at Thrush Green / Year at Thrush Green (omnibus) (2000)
This Year at Thrush Green (2009)

Caxley Chronicles
The Howards of Caxley (1967)
The Caxley Chronicles Omnibus: Market Square/ Howards of Caxley (omnibus) (1999)

Anthologies edited

Country Bunch (1963)

Non fiction

Country Cooking (1969)
Fortunate Grandchild (1982)
Time Remembered (1986)
The English Vicarage Garden: Thirty Gardens of Beauty And Inspiration (1988)
Miss Read's Country Cooking: Or, to Cut a Cabbage-Leaf (1992)

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