New Releases by Elizabeth Goudge

A captivating story filled with English charm, luminous wisdom, and astonishing spiritual insight. Mary Lindsay is a born and bred Londoner who has enjoyed her city life—a prestigious job, and friends with whom she takes in the city pleasures of theatre, art and music. But fleeting memories of a childhood visit to her father's elderly cousin out in the country are revived with the news that the woman has willed her home, the Laurels, to Mary. She makes an uncharacteristically sudden and life-changing decision to leave London for the country. The gradual unfolding of her understanding of herself, of the now-deceased woman who has bequeathed her home to Mary, and of the people of Appleshaw, all weave together in a most memorable story of love's redemptive power.

When Marianne LePatourel meets William Ozanne in the 1830s on an island in the English Channel, she sets her heart on him. However, her sister Marguerite falls in love with him too. And so begins this sweeping novel that takes the characters on dramatic adventures from childhood through old age, on land and at sea, and from the Channel Islands to China to the New Zealand frontier. When William's naval career is cut short, he settles in New Zealand and writes to Mr. LePatourel to ask for Marguerite's hand in marriage—but in his nervousness he pens the wrong name. When Marianne arrives aboard the ship The Green Dolphin, William makes the gallant decision not to reveal his mistake. His mistake sets in motion a marriage that is difficult, but teaches them both that steadfast love which is chosen is stronger than the passion of love at first sight.

Bored with the distractions of London, Judy Cameron insists on taking herself, her parents and her fiance to remote Glen Suilag in the Scottish Highlands. Leaving behind the busy whirl of the capital, she becomes absorbed in an unknown and yet strangely familiar world. As Judy explores the house and glen, secrets begin to unravel and questions arise that she must find the answers to. Why does the strange house feel so familiar? How does she know the laird, Ian Macdonald? Why does she feel so terrified of the middle window in the parlour? And who is the mysterious Judith who haunts her dreams?

'Breathtaking...A long vista of undulating story, with here and there peaks of volcanic excitement' Daily Telegraph A haunting love story set between the Channel Islands and New Zealand in the 19th century. When young William Ozanne arrives on their island, sisters Marianne and Marguerite Le Patourel are both captivated. But it is tall, beautiful Marguerite who catches his eye. Years later, William leaves the island for a life at sea, eventually settling across the ocean in New Zealand. Impulsively, he invites Marguerite to join him there, but a slip of the pen results in Marianne making the journey instead. As Marguerite deals with a broken heart and the loss of her sister, Marianne must make a new life in a strange land, with a man who respects her but loves another. Can she persuade William that he chose the right sister, after all? The inspiration behind the Academy Award winning film Green Dolphin Street (1947). What readers are saying about GREEN DOLPHIN COUNTRY 'Fantastic' - 5 STARS 'A beautiful and unusual love story' - 5 STARS 'Full of twists and turns and beautifully written as always' - 5 STARS 'A wonderful story' - 5 STARS 'A magical story with characters that leap out from the page' - 5 STARS

Four young siblings embark on a fantastical adventure in this classic children's story by the Carnegie Medal-winning author of The Little White Horse. When their father goes off traveling, Nan, Robert, Timothy, and Betsy Linnet are sent to stay with their grandmother. Unfortunately, their new caretaker doesn't care much for children—let alone their dog. So they run away to stay with their Uncle Ambrose. A retired schoolteacher, Ambrose is determined to give the Linnet children an education. But in addition to Greek, Latin, and Literature, they learn about nature and magic, the power of the past, and, of course, the importance of the bees. Armed with their new knowledge, they set off on a fantastical adventure to find the lost Valerians, undo some wicked spells, and reunite a divided family. Linnets and Valerians is filled with Elizabeth Goudge's trademark mixture of realism and magic. Much like The Little White Horse, it is set in Devon and inspired by local folklore and legends.

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It is late sixteenth-century London when awkward teenage Faithful travels to Oxford to study in England s great university. When Canon Leigh takes him in, Faithful enters into a family as exciting and educational as the university itself. Woven into the narratives of Faithful and the canon s daughter Joyeuce is Oxford during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I with the pomp and sordidness of the spectacular era of England s Golden Age. Not only a historical journey, Towers in the Mist is also a coming-of-age tale of young love and hope. "

In a remote mid-nineteenth-century English town, cathedral Dead Adam Ayscough holds a deep love for his parishioners and townspeople. When an obscure watchmaker strikes up an unlikely friendship with the Dean, it leads to an unusual spiritual awakening in both men, and eventually reaches out to the entire community.

'The Little White Horse was my favourite childhood book. I absolutely adored it. It had a cracking plot. It was scary and romantic in parts and had a feisty heroine.' - JK Rowling - The Bookseller In 1842, thirteen-year-old orphan Maria Merryweather travels to her family's ancestral home, Moonacre Manor, to live with her uncle Sir Benjamin. She immediately feels right at home with her kind and funny uncle and meets a wonderful set of new friends — but she quickly learns that beneath all this beauty and comfort, a past feud haunts Moonacre Manor and it’s her destiny to right the wrongs of her ancestors and restore the peace to Moonacre Valley. A beautifully written fantasy story filled with magic, a Moon Princess, and a mysterious white horse. Little White Horse and the delightful heroine, Maria Merryweather, are sure to be loved by all children.

In spite of the fact that Polly's two aunts will not leave the door unlocked on Christmas Eve, their cottage is still visited by three wise men, one of whom has come home to stay after a long absence.

In Make-Believe, we rejoin Andre and Rachel du Frocq and their five children, the delightful family from Elizabeth Goudge's first novel, Island Magic. Few authors have captured the spirit of childhood as Goudge does in these stories. This new edition of the long out-of-print book includes the original illustrations by Walter Hodges.

Island Magic (1934), a beautiful story of the Channel Islands in the nineteenth century, was Elizabeth Goudge's first novel and stands as one of her finest. It tells of Rachel and Andre du Froq and their exuberant children, and the mysterious stranger who washes up from the sea and becomes entwined in their lives. [Also available: the sequel, "Make-Believe" by Elizabeth Goudge.]

Ce livre est sans doute l'un des meilleurs portiques pour accéder à l'œuvre, un temps oubliée, d'Elizabeth Goudge (1900-1984), dont les romans (L'Arche dans la tempête, Le Pays du Dauphin Vert) connurent juste avant et juste après la guerre un extraordinaire succès - et que la critique salua comme une nouvelle Emily Brontë. Au-dessus du petit port de Torquay, dans l'Ouest de l'Angleterre, la Colline aux Gentianes et son antique chapelle semblent monter la garde à la lisière de deux mondes : poste-frontière entre l'Ici et l'Ailleurs. De là-haut, pour peu qu'on n'ait pas froid aux yeux, l'on découvre ce que promet demain : une navigation parmi les écueils. C'est ce qu'a tôt compris Zachary, déserteur de quinze ans qui ne supporte pas la vie à bord (nous sommes à l'heure des guerres napoléoniennes) et qui cherche dans un trou perdu de la plus banale campagne à oublier sa peur - et à se faire oublier. Mais le passé s'arrange toujours pour vous rattraper par la manche. Le garçon rencontrera sur son chemin la petite Stella, une gamine encore mais qui en fascine plus d'un. Stella non plus n'est pas d'ici. Adoptée par des paysans, elle a toujours eu le sentiment d'avoir habité en rêve un autre pays. La vraie vie, nous est-il suggéré à mi-voix, est forcément ailleurs : un ailleurs que les âmes en rupture de ban - déserteurs, naufragés, enfants sans père ni mère - ont pour mission de découvrir, au besoin en s'y cassant les dents. Du rêve considéré comme une école d'existence.

The third in the classic trilogy of novels about the Eliots of Damerosehay

A biography of Saint Francis from his 12th-century boyhood to his life as a missionary at the bounds of the the known world. -- Dust jacket.

Jocelyn Irvin, a dispirited Boer War veteran, opens a bookshop in an English cathedral town and produces a play started by a former occupant.