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  • The Complete Uncle Silas Stories

    by H.E. Bates ...
    Bates's famous loveable rogue, Uncle Silas, has a unique range of work to his name. For the first time, all of these stories are gathered together in one collection, allowing readers to experience Silas from multiple perspectives.Some tales offer sly, affectionate glimpses of the narrator's great-uncle Silas – the rural oldster of the earthy, boozy, incorrigible school. But there is also an active ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Fair Stood the Wind to France

    by H. E. Bates ...
    Fair Stood the Wind for France, first published in 1944, is author H. E. Bates' fictional account of a downed English bomber-pilot and his crew over occupied France during World War II. The men are taken in by a French family who hide them in their home. However, the pilot, injured during the plane's landing, must remain in France to heal, while his crew begin their journey back to friendly ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From the Shadows

    by E.L. Bates ...
    Whisked from her troubled, solitary life to a spaceship centuries in the future, widowed folk musician Riss Waldon must first figure out how she got there, and then if it's possible to get home. Before long, she is visiting strange and deadly planets and meeting new alien races, and forming friendships with the crew. Even as they strive to discover a way for her to return, she wonders if it ... Read more

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  • Love for Lydia

    by H.E. Bates ...
    'An honest and skillfully told love story' - New York TimesLydia - shy, sheltered, beautiful and just nineteen - glides into Evensford one wintry day, stirring up feeling amongst the town's young men. But it is the young Mr Richardson that she befriends.As winter turns to drowsy summer, his world becomes a wondrous place, full only of Lydia; but a change comes over the once retiring girl as she ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Darling Buds of May

    by H. E. Bates ...
    Series Book 1 - The Pop Larkin Chronicles
    The rich spirit of an English junk dealer and his family is challenged by the arrival of the tax collector in this humorous and heartwarming classic.Beneath the sunny, cloudless skies of Kent, the Larkin household—Pop, Ma, and their six children—enjoy the simple pleasures of life. Pop works as a junk dealer and keeps the farm to feed his brood, while Ma cooks the meals and minds the children. ... Read more

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  • The Cruise of The Breadwinner

    by H.E. Bates ...
    The Cruise of the Breadwinner is an adventure at sea, following Snowy as he comes of age through a shower of sea-spray and bullets. The youngest crew member on a coastal patrol boat, he longs for action as his sharp eyes pick out distant plane battles and his ears strain to the sound of faint gun-fire. But when finally the war envelops him and his crew-mates in its terrible grasp, he must face the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Breath of French Air

    by H. E. Bates ...
    Series Book 2 - The Pop Larkin Chronicles
    The Larkins travel to France for some sun and relaxation—only to be met with disaster—in this comic classic by the author of The Darling Buds of May.At summer's end, rain clouds hovering over Kent have some in the Larkin household feeling under the weather in more ways than one. Ma is exhausted from nursing newborn Oscar, and Mariette needs a break.Meanwhile, Mariette's husband, Charley, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pop Larkin Chronicles

    The Darling Buds of May, A Breath of French Air, and When the Green Woods Laugh

    by H. E. Bates ...
    Series series The Pop Larkin Chronicles
    An English junk dealer and his family get up to mischief and misadventure, in the first three novels of this "pulsing comedy of country manners" ( Time).The Darling Buds of MayBeneath the sunny skies of Kent, the Larkin family—Pop, Ma, and their six children—enjoy the simple pleasures of life. All of that could change, however, when Cedric Charlton from Inland Revenue appears on their farm. Cedric ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Watercress Girl

    by H.E. Bates ...
    Stories about children are not always for children. In The Watercress Girl, H. E. Bates masterfully depicts a childhood which, by proxy, reveals the mystifying world of the adult. Through a series of short, lyrical stories, the complexities of the world are seen with crystalline purity through the eyes of children. We experience the joyous and painful clarity of youth, full of fears, hopes and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • While Shepherds Watch

    Whitney and Davies, #1.5

    by E.L. Bates ...
    Series Book 1.5 - Whitney and Davies
    "Of all the ghastly holidays, Christmas is the worst!"When apprentice magician Maia Whitney's plans for a quiet Christmas with no obligations toward anyone are disrupted by a friend in need, she resigns herself to yet another holiday filled with indigestion and artificial cheer. Things look up when her friend and fellow magician Len Davies joins the adventure, but Maia is still far from feeling ... Read more

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  • Perfect Sight Without Glasses

    by Dr. William H. Bates ...
    William Horatio Bates (December 23, 1860 – July 10, 1931) was an American physician who practiced ophthalmology and developed what became known as the Bates Method for better eyesight, an educational method intended to improve vision by undoing a supposed habitual strain to see. The efficacy of the method is questionable, and his theory that the eye does not focus by changing the power of the lens ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Oh! To Be in England

    by H. E. Bates ...
    Series Book 4 - The Pop Larkin Chronicles
    The arrival of a French guest heralds christenings and chaos for the Larkin clan in this comic classic by the author of The Darling Buds of May.When Mademoiselle Dupont, the hotel manager from the Larkins' frightful French holiday, announces she is coming over to be Oscar's godmother at his christening, Pop and Ma reveal none of their children are baptized. Mariette and Charley are already ... Read more

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