Books like Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
In an English village, Major Ernest Pettigrew, a retired, widowed stickler for tradition, strikes up a friendship with Mrs Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani widow who runs the village shop, to the dismay of his family and neighbours.
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A Room with a View
A young woman visits Florence and discovers that passion and spontaneity offer more than the propriety she was raised to value.
Emma
A brilliant, meddling young woman convinced she can arrange everyone's love life discovers she's been wrong about her own heart all along.
Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
Newly retired from her London PR firm to a Cotswolds village, Agatha Raisin enters a shop-bought quiche in the local baking competition to win friends, and the judge drops dead after eating it.
Aunt Dimity's Death
Down on her luck in Boston, Lori Shepherd learns that Aunt Dimity, the heroine of her late mother's bedtime stories, was a real Englishwoman who has left her a Cotswolds cottage and a mystery to unravel.
The Old Devils
Alun Weaver, a television personality who has made a career of being Welsh, comes home to South Wales with his wife Rhiannon, and old friends and old flames gather in the pubs.
Foreign Affairs
Two American academics on leave in London, Vinnie Miner, a fifty-something expert on children's rhymes, and her young colleague Fred Turner, fall into unlikely love affairs.
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens
Cinnamon Gardens, a nursing home in western Sydney run by a Sri Lankan Tamil family, becomes the target of a local culture war, and the residents' memories of their own war come back.
Glitterland
Ash Winters, a once-celebrated novelist living with severe depression, meets Darian Taylor, a would-be model from Essex, at a stag party in Brighton.
Queenie
Queenie Jenkins, a twenty-five-year-old Jamaican British journalist in London, comes apart after her white boyfriend asks for a break, making one bad choice after another while her friends and family try to keep up.
A Man Called Ove
A curmudgeonly old widower whose only joy is enforcing neighbourhood rules is slowly redeemed by the immigrant family that moves in next door.
The Murder at the Vicarage
When the widely disliked Colonel Protheroe is found shot in the vicar's study in the village of St Mary Mead, there is no shortage of suspects, and the vicar's elderly neighbour, Miss Jane Marple, has her own ideas.
Austenland
Jane Hayes, a New Yorker who cannot get over Mr Darcy, inherits from her great-aunt three weeks at an English country house where guests dress, speak and flirt as if it were the Regency.