R. F. Delderfield
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All Over the Town
Nat Hearn came back from the War to be assistant editor and can carrier in chief of the Sandcome Clarion. R.F. Delderfield takes the lid…
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Cheap Day Return
Kent Stuart left the West Country town of Redcliffe Bay more than thirty years ago, pursued by the guilt and shame of a scandal that…
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Too Few for Drums
After the British victory at Busaco during the Peninsula campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars, Ensign Keith Graham finds himself cut off from the army, along…
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Give Us This Day
Adam Swann has grown old, and is struggling to keep up with the changing times. The Victorian age is giving way to the Edwardian and…
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Come Home Charlie & Face Them
The real motive wasn't love and it wasn't greed . . . It rose to the surface out of a grey pit of boredom. When…
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God is an Englishman
Adam Swann is hungry for success. He is one of the new breed of entrepreneurs thrown up by the Industrial Revolution, determined to take advantage…
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Theirs Was the Kingdom
The second book in R.F. Delderfield's Swann family saga. Adam Swann's expanding business empire now stretches as far north as the Scottish Highlands and as…
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The Spring Madness of Mr Sermon
It happened on the second day of the summer term. Was it caused by the smell of lilac, the droning of the bees, or the…
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The Dreaming Suburb
Jim Carver a tough, resolute war veteran, he returns from the trenches to build a better life for his family to find his wife dead.…
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The Avenue Goes to War
Life didn't stop in the Avenue because the war had started . . . Berni Carver joins up with the Commandos with his twin brother…
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Diana
Beautiful, resourceful, treacherous, vulnerable. She was a woman full of contradictions and he would never stop loving her. As a young girl Diana is irrepressible,…
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Post of Honour
1912-1940 A generation fallen. A country that will never be the same again. Nowhere in England avoids the searing loss of young men during the…
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Long Summer Day
1902-1911 An age of innocence and hope. Before the storm clouds roll over Europe. As Paul Craddock recovers from his Boer War injuries, he starts…
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The Green Gauntlet
1942-1964 Paul and Claire Craddock have grown older in years - but not in spirit. The turbulence of war is followed by a penurious peace.…
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To Serve Them All My Days
Miner's son David Powlett-Jones returns from the carnage of the Western Front in 1918, shell-shocked and bitterly hardened by the violence of war. He begins…