It is 1970 and there is student unrest throughout England. In a small university in the West Country, Caroline Grimstone, the wife of an ambitious young historian, is also uneasy. Is she an...

The Misses Bede occupy the central crossroads of parish life. Then, into their quiet lives comes a famous librarian, Nathaniel Mold, and a bishop from Africa, Theodore Grote - who each take to...

Catherine Oliphant is a writer and lives with handsome anthropologist Tom Mallow. When he begins a romance with student Deirdre Swann, Catherine turns her attention to Alaric Lydgate, who has a...

When Barbara Pym died in 1980 she left a considerable amount of unpublished material. This volume contains an early novel written in 1936, Civil to Strangers (originally called Adam and Sandra),...

Dulcie Mainwaring's friend Viola is besotted by Dr Aylwin Forbes, so surely it isn't prying if she helps things along? Aylwin, however, is smitten by Dulcie's young niece. And perhaps Dulcie...

Wilmet Forsyth is good looking & fairly young, but bored. Her husband Rodney is slightly balder & fatter than he once was. Herinterest wanders to the Anglo-Catholic church, where she neglects her...