Herbert Ernest Bates

‘Home looks nice. Allus does though, don’t it? Perfick’ And so the Larkins – Pop, Ma, Mariette, Zinnia, Petunia, Primrose, Victoria and Montgomery – return from an outing for fish and chips and ice cream one May evening. There, amid the rustic charms of home, they discover a visitor: one Cedric Charlton, Her Majesty’s inspector of taxes. Mr Charlton is visiting to find out why junk-dealer Pop hasn’t paid his tax – but nothing’s that simple at the Larkins. Mariette takes a shine to ‘Charley’ – as Pop calls him – and before long the family have introduced the uncomplaining inspector to the delights of country living: the lusty scents of wild flowers, the pleasures of a bottle of Dragon’s Blood, cold cream dribbled over a bowl of strawberries and hot, hot summer nights. In fact, soon Charley can’t see any reason to return to the office at all …

The Darling Buds of May

Fair Stood the Wind for France

Agnes Miller Parker

Down the River

The Japanese come to Burma, and a motley group is forced to flee. From the native girl to the proper British major, the members of the band fight their private battles against a backdrop of war.

The Jacaranda Tree

A sequel to My Uncle Silas with twelve futher stories about the countryman with a gargantuan appetite and thirst.

Sugar for the Horse

Day's End, and Other Stories

The Song of the Wren

The Triple Echo

The Pop Larkin Chronicles

Short comic novel about an unconventional English farmer and his attempts to snare a husband for his daughter.

The Best of H. E. Bates

Combining Bates' three autobiographies, 'The Vanished World', 'The Blossoming World' and 'The World in Ripeness', this volume is a tribute to one of the most prolific and popular of English writers.

An Autobiography

H.E. Bates

The Wild Cherry Tree

Three Short Novels

The Nature of Love

The Feast of July

A Breath of French Air

Four Novellas

An Aspidistra in Babylon

Readers who have discovered the delights of the British master storyteller H.E. Bates will welcome this third collection. Gathered here are twenty stories written between 1938 and 1964 which are gems of human observation.

Herbert Ernest Bates

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