Miss Read

The arrival of a stranger in the village of Thrush Green stirs up ripples of speculation and interest....

Miss Read heard about the sale of Tyler's Row from the always well-informed Mrs Pringle - and before long Fairacre was alive with rumours as to why the present owners were selling....

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

The house stood empty for many months. Then one bright April day, some discreet onlookers saw a good-looking woman pushing her way through the nettles to the front door....

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

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

On a blustery day in Fairacre, Miss Clare sees two strangers "pacing slowly, side by side, along the edge of Hundred Acre Field, which lay on the other side of Miss Clare's garden hedge....

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....

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

"No matter how devoted, dedicated, conscientious and altogether noble a teacher is, I feel pretty sure that each and everyone feels the same sense of freedom and relief from her chains when the end of term arrives...."

Over The Gate is a hugely entertaining collection of tales from Fairacre, past and present....

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....

Fairacre is a village of cottages....

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

From organising the school summer fete to the sometimes rather odd passions of childhood, Miss Read captures the essence of rural life as only she can....

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

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....

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

Tthe village of Thrush Green decides to combine the 100th anniversary of a mission school opened by the village's most distinguished son and the centenary of the village school....