If you liked the historical fiction plot in The Brandons by Angela Thirkell , here is a list of 13 books like this:
1. Less Than Angels
By: Barbara Pym
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
It is surely appropriate that anthropologists, who spend their time studying life and behavior in v… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- classics
- british literature
- humor
- fiction
"Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink."-Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels
"What was the point of living in a suburb if one couldn’t show a healthy curiosity about one’s neighbours?"-Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels
"Not that the making of tea can ever really be regarded as a petty or trivial matter and Miss Clovis did seem to have been seriously at fault."-Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels
"Like so many men, he needed a woman stronger than himself, for behind the harsh cragginess of the Easter Island façade cowered the small boy, uncertain of himself."-Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels
2. The Provincial Lady in London
By: E.M. Delafield
3.96
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
These highly acclaimed, delightful novels are written in diary form by the Provincial Lady, who liv… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- humor
- fiction
- historical fiction
3. The Four Graces (Miss Buncle, #4)
By: D.E. Stevenson
3.00
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
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- romance
- classics
- british literature
- humor
- fiction
- historical fiction
4. The Circular Staircase
By: Mary Roberts Rinehart
3.79
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
This is the story of how a middle-aged spinster lost her mind, deserted her domestic gods in the ci… read more
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- classics
- fiction
5. Vittoria Cottage (Dering Family, #1)
By: D.E. Stevenson
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Caroline Dering, a young widow, lives in Vittoria Cottage in Ashbridge, a small country town in rur… read more
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- romance
- classics
- british literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
6. Village Centenary (Fairacre, #15)
By: Miss Read
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
VILLAGE CENTENARY welcomes us back to Miss Read's cozy downland village just in time for the one hu… read more
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- historical fiction
- humor
- fiction
- british literature
7. Over the Gate (Fairacre, #5)
By: Miss Read
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Throughout her years as schoolmistress, Miss Read has gathered excellent accounts of the rich and v… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- humor
- fiction
- historical fiction
8. Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
4.07
Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The wealthy Agatha Dawson is dead--a trifle sooner than expected--but there are no apparent signs o… read more
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- historical fiction
- classics
- fiction
- british literature
"It doesn't do for people, especially doctors, to go about 'thinking' things. They may get into frightful trouble."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)
"…After all, it isn't really difficult to write books. Especially if you either write a rotten story in good English or a good story in rotten English, which is as far as most people seem to get nowad…"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)
"I sleuth, you know. For a hobby. Harmless outlet for natural inquisitiveness, don't you see, which might otherwise strike inward and produce introspection an' suicide. Very natural, healthy pursuit -…"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)
"Miss Climpson," said Lord Peter, "is a manifestation of the wasteful way in which this country is run. Look at electricity, Look at water-power. Look at the tides. Look at the sun. Millions of power …"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)
9. Battles at Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #4)
By: Miss Read
4.60
Format: None pages,
Feelings are running high in the Cotswold village of Thrush Green. The rector's plan for the neglec… read more
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- historical fiction
- humor
- fiction
- british literature
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- romance
- literary fiction
- classics
- british literature
- humor
- fiction
- historical fiction
11. News from Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #3)
By: Miss Read , John S. Goodall
3.70
Format: 339 pages, Paperback
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- romance
- classics
- british literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
12. Winter in Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #2)
By: Miss Read
3.70
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
In the follow-up to Thrush Green, the arrival of a stranger in the village stirs ripples of specula… read more
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- historical fiction
- classics
- fiction
- british literature
13. A Civil Contract
By: Georgette Heyer
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Adam Deveril, a hero of Salamanca, returns from the Peninsula War to find his family on the brink o… read more
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14. Gossip from Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #6)
By: Miss Read
3.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
GOSSIP FROM THRUSH GREEN returns readers to the delightful English village, neighbor to Fairacre, f… read more
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15. The School at Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #9)
By: Miss Read
3.97
Format: 649 pages, Hardcover
As two schoolteachers plan for their retirement, readers witness the challenges they face leaving t… read more
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16. Return to Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #5)
By: Miss Read , John S. Goodall
3.97
Format: 649 pages, Paperback
Miss Read's delightful chronicles of life in Thrush Green continue with RETURN TO THRUSH GREEN. It'… read more
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17. Friends at Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #10)
By: Miss Read
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ever since the publication of Village School35 years ago, Miss Read's numerous novels set in Thrush… read more
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18. The Year at Thrush Green
By: Miss Read
3.07
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In her fortieth book published by Houghton Mifflin, the inimitable Miss Read leads us through the s… read more
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19. Shoulder the Sky (Dering Family, #3)
By: D.E. Stevenson
3.45
Format: None pages,
A London artist tries to adjust to her new life on a Scottish farm and, in painting everything arou… read more
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20. Music In The Hills (Dering Family, #2)
By: D.E. Stevenson
3.45
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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21. Amberwell (Ayrton Family Book 1)
By: D.E. Stevenson
4.53
Format: 288 pages,
Five young Ayrtons all grew up at Amberwell, playing in the gardens and preparing themselves to ven… read more
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22. Airs Above the Ground
By: Mary Stewart
3.06
Format: 405 pages, Paperback
Lovely Vanessa March, two years married and very much in love, did not think it was a strange for h… read more
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23. Madam, Will You Talk?
By: Mary Stewart
3.06
Format: 405 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Widow Charity Selbornehad been greatly looking forward to her driving holiday through France with h… read more
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24. Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
By: Shannon Reed
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile and Thurber… read more
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- humor
"I think, therefore, I cry..."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"Life is so much better with books than without."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"But reading! That I could do. When I read, I felt smart."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"The act of reading makes me feel safe. Not the book itself--but the exercise of running my eyes over the words. The translation from symbol into meaning. The direct, pleasant diction of the voice ins…"-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
25. The Lark
By: E. Nesbit
3.80
Format: 263 pages, None
"When did two girls of our age have such a chance as we've got - to have a lark entirely on our own… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- classics
- british literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
26. Mrs. Lorimer's Quiet Summer
By: Molly Clavering
4.13
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
The two were friends and had been for many years before Miss Douglas, a little battered by war expe… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- humor
- fiction
- historical fiction
27. Extranjeros, bienvenidos
By: Barbara Pym
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
Cuando Barbara Pym murió en 1980, dejó una cantidad considerable de material inédito. Entre éste, u… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- british literature
- humor
- fiction
