Watercolors of people, horses, wildflowers, and landscapes are accompanied by selections from the artist's letters describing daily life in the English countryside

Riding High 1896-1903: Country Diary of a Young Horsewoman

Sneyd, Barbara

Barstow, Phyllida

Sports & Outdoors

Dodd, Mead

Not until Thea joined her husband in Kabul did she discover his true character. Loyalty demanded her silence as the British Mission to Afghanistan found itself trapped and helpless in a hostile land. Menaced by starvation, sixteen thousand men, women and children set out on a desperate march through snowbound passes to Jellalabad, over a hundred miles away.

Shadows On The Snow (U) (Magna Large Print General Series)

Romance

Ulverscroft

Night Is for Hunting

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Arrow (A Division of Random House Group)

An historical novel about a young Englishwoman who accepts a marriage proposal to her new husband in far-off Indian during the 19th century Maratha Wars.

The Nabob's Wife

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Century

SHADOWS ON THE SNOW

RANDOM HOUSE UK

During the golden age of English country house entertaining, from the death of Prince Albert in 1861 to the outbreak of World War I, invitations passed back and forth among members of the aristocracy. Barstow brings to life the personalities and lifestyles of a vanished age in this carefully researched and illustrated study. International royalty and the political figures of the day also feature, none more memorably than the Shah of Persia, who offered to buy the Marchioness of Londonderry and advised the Prince of Wales to execute the Duke of Sutherland when he became king. The text reveals the social and political importance of the house party and also describes the role of the country house in its local and national setting. The decline of country house living after World War I and the beginnings of the National Trust and other efforts to save for the nation these former playgrounds of the elite form the concluding chapters.

The English Country House Party (Sutton Illustrated History Paperbacks)

Sutton Pub Ltd

The English Country House Party

History

Europe

Equation

"Falling truly, madly, deeply in love with one animal after another was a recurrent theme of the author's childhood, actively encouraged by her beautiful, impetuous mother as she single-handedly held the family together during the war's darkest days. While her husband's regiment battled through the Tunisian desert to Italy and Austria, she criss-crossed beleaguered Britain with children, ration books, and an unwieldy train of rabbits, dogs, cats and ponies, dreaming of land of her own. But farming can't be learned overnight, and translated into the reality of 400 acres of hilly, rain-lashed Radnorshire, that dream became a challenge for all ranks. Dragooned into acting as unskilled, unpaid labour for jobs that would make today's Health-and-Safety freaks blench - burning rushes, driving tractors, riding on Land-Rover bonnets and towering haywains - the children came to look on boarding-school as a rest-cure, though they retain from those days of carefree, unregulated farm life a treasure-house of memories.     This elegant memoir, told with disarming honesty and gentle humour, follows the development of a lively, headstrong, self-effacing young girl into womanhood."

My Animals (and other Family)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Merlin Unwin Books

"It Happened in Gloucestershire is a vibrant and compelling account of the county's diverse heritage; its heroes, its battles, its inventors, its outlandish sports.Phyllida Barstow's lively prose transports the reader across the county: from its stunning cathedral to its swan lake at Slimbridge, taking us surfing the Severn Bore, tumbling down Cooper Hill on the notorious Cheese Race, round the challenging course at Badminton and to Imjin Hill, site of the tragic stand of the Glorious Glosters.The book celebrates those who have helped to put Gloucestershire on the map: Eddie the Eagle, William Morris, Vaughan Williams, Desert Orchid, William Tyndale, Richard III - as well as the varied claims to fame of Concorde, GCHQ, the Cotswold Lions, the conqueror of small-pox, the Gloucester Old Spot and the hardy miners of the Forest of Dean. "

It Happened in Gloucestershire

Many home-steaders have plunged in at the deep end and learnt through experience.But Phyllida Barstow, author of the childhood autobiography My Animals and Other Family, was already steeped in animal husbandry when, as a young woman, she embarked on her own home-steading enterprises. Here is her lively, informative and witty account of her first-hand experience throughout her lifetime in Gloucestershire, with chickens, dogs, goats, horses, sheep, peacocks, alpacas and even honey bees.As she points out, small-holding is not a summer idyll but truly a job for all seasons, all hours, all weathers. She also has to deal with fallen stock, pest control, disease outbreaks and slaughter. Her tips include those on animal handling, leading, breeding and delivery. Her wry and practical attitude towards her animals is imbued with respect and often affection for her charges. This account of the realities of modern home-streading is both entertaining and informative.

A Job for all Seasons: My Small Country Living

Memoirs

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