One woman's life begins to unravel. One family is pulled into the storm. And two children become caught between love, illness, addiction, and a system trying to decide what happens next.Dissipation: A True Story of Mental Illness, Substance Abuse and a Double Injustice is an unflinching true story of a woman named Hunter and the family who desperately tries to hold on to her as her world begins to fracture.Once vibrant, ambitious, and full of possi...

Flora Jane Thompson (5 December 1876 – 21 May 1947) was an English novelist and poet famous for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, Lark Rise to Candleford.In this book:Lark RiseOver to CandlefordCandleford Green

In "Still Glides the Stream," Flora Jane Thompson offers a poignant exploration of rural life in early 20th-century England. Through her evocative prose, Thompson captures the rhythms of nature and the intricate relationships within a close-knit community. The narrative unfolds with a gentle pace, reflecting the subtleties of life along the River Ouse, where the environment is both a backdrop and a character in its own right. Rich with vivid imagery and lyrical descriptions, the book exper...

In "Over to Candleford," Flora Jane Thompson weaves a rich tapestry of rural life in late 19th-century England, offering a semi-autobiographical narrative that captures the nuances of her youth in the fictional village of Candleford Green. Through elegantly crafted prose infused with a poetic sensibility, Thompson intricately explores the lives of its inhabitants, shedding light on the customs, aspirations, and the sociocultural landscape of Victorian England. The book intertwines vivid de...

In "Still Glides the Stream," Flora Jane Thompson weaves a poignant tapestry of rural life in early 20th-century England, blending rich, evocative descriptions with a lyrical prose style that mirrors the gentle flow of nature. The narrative unfolds around the lives of the farming community in the fictional countryside, exploring themes of love, loss, and the inexorable passage of time. Through Thompson's keen observations and vivid imagery, readers are immersed in the sensory experiences o...

Flora Jane Thompson's "Candleford Green" is a poignant exploration of rural life in early 20th century England, depicted through the lens of nostalgia and personal recollection. This semi-autobiographical novel unfolds in the fictional village of Candleford Green, intertwining rich character studies and vivid imagery to portray the simplicity and complexities of provincial life. Thompson's lyrical prose and keen observations transport readers into the heart of a community steeped in tradit...

Candleford Green completes Flora Thompson's celebrated evocation of rural Oxfordshire at the turn of the twentieth century, following Laura as she enters service at the village post office and encounters a wider social world than that of her hamlet childhood. Written in a lucid, gently lyrical prose, the book blends memoir, social history, and pastoral fiction, preserving dialect, custom, and class nuance without sentimentality. It belongs to the tradition of English rural writing, yet its...

Still Glides the Stream is Flora Jane Thompson's quietly luminous return to the vanished countryside that also nourished Lark Rise to Candleford. Set around an Oxfordshire river community, the novel traces village affections, rivalries, labor, memory, and social change with an observant realism softened by lyric pastoral feeling. Its style is measured, intimate, and exact: neither sentimental idyll nor harsh naturalism, but an elegiac record of rural England at the moment its older rhythms...

The claustrophobia of Room meets the camaraderie of Yellowjackets with a touch of Picnic at Hanging Rock in this dark, immersive, psychological thriller debut with a speculative/lite-horror edge.Christmas Eve, 1974.As Cyclone Tracy tears through Darwin, four girls disappear into the heart of the outback. No tracks. No bodies. No answers.Decades later, one returns.She claims to be one of the missing. But is...

‘I’m looking for two really trustworthy rabbits and six sensible clear-speaking frogs!’Young Anna Lacey has spent most of her life on a farm in Essex. But her first teaching position carries her to an unattractive, newly constructed suburb where she has to adjust to cramped lodgings, a skinflint landlady, overcrowded classrooms, and eccentric colleagues (‘a rum lot’). She must also adapt some of her idealistic theories of teaching to the realities of her ...

Miss Read looks forward to her retirement - but it doesn't go quite as planned...When Miss Read took early retirement, she anticipated days of relaxation and calm. She couldn't have been more wrong! Instead she finds herself as busy and in demand as ever: on holiday in Florence, helping with church and school affairs and offering a kindly ear to her eccentric neighbours.As village life continues as always, Miss Read embarks on a local project and discovers ...

Miss Read's future as headmistress hangs in the balance as the village school is threatened with closure.'People in Fairacre simply won't stand for their children being uprooted, and carted away in buses like so many - er, so many--''Animals?' prompted Mr Roberts helpfully.'No, no, not animals,' said Mrs Mawne testily. 'Animals don't go in buses! What I mean is, we won't have it. We'll never let Fairacre school close.'She looked round the ta...