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Herbert Ernest Bates was born on 16th May 1905 and became one of
England's finest 'rural' or countryside writers. A very prolific author,
possibly best remembered for The Darling Buds of May. In 1973 he was awarded the
CBE and passed away in 1974.
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| Title |
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Date |
Notes |
| The Two Sisters |
Cape |
1926 |
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| The Last Bread |
Labour |
1926 |
Play |
| Catherine Foster |
Cape |
1929 |
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| Charlotte's Row |
Cape |
1931 |
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| The Fallow Land |
Cape |
1932 |
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| The Poacher |
Cape |
1935 |
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| The House of Women |
Cape |
1936 |
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| Spella Ho |
Cape |
1938 |
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| Fair Stood the Wind |
Joseph |
1944 |
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| The Cruise of the Breadwinner |
Joseph |
1946 |
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| The Purple Plain |
Joseph |
1947 |
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| The Jacaranda Tree |
Joseph |
1949 |
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| The Scarlet Sword |
Joseph |
1950 |
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| Love for Lydia |
Joseph |
1952 |
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| The Feast of July |
Joseph |
1954 |
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| The Sleepless Moon |
Joseph |
1957 |
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| The Darling Buds of May |
Joseph |
1958 |
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| A Breath of French Air |
Joseph |
1959 |
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| When the Green Woods Laugh |
Joseph |
1960 |
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| The Day of the Tortoise |
Joseph |
1961 |
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| The Crown of Wild Myrtle |
Joseph |
1962 |
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| Oh to be in England |
Joseph |
1963 |
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| A Moment in Time |
Joseph |
1963 |
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| The Distant Horns of Summer |
Joseph |
1967 |
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| A Little of what You Fancy |
Joseph |
1970 |
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| The Triple Echo |
Joseph |
1970 |
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Short Stories by HE Bates
| Title |
|
Date |
Notes |
| The Spring Song |
Archer |
1927 |
100 copies |
| Day's End |
Cape |
1928 |
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| Song for December |
Private |
1928 |
Poetry |
| Seven Tales and Alexander |
Scholastic |
1929 |
1,000 copies |
| The Hessian Prisoner |
Jackson |
1930 |
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| The Tree |
Lahr |
1930 |
wraps |
| Christmas 1930 |
Private |
1930 |
Poetry |
| Mrs Esmond's Life |
Private |
1931 |
50 copies |
| A German Idyll |
Cockerel |
1932 |
307 copies |
| The Black Boxer |
Pharos |
1932 |
100 copies |
| Sally Go Round the Moon |
White Owl |
1932 |
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| Story Without End |
White Owl |
1932 |
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| The House with the Apricot |
Cockerel |
1933 |
300 copies |
| The Women who had Imagination |
Cape |
1934 |
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| Thirty Tales |
Cape |
1934 |
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| The Duet |
Grayson |
1935 |
285 copies |
| Cut and Come Again |
Cape |
1935 |
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| Something Short and Sweet |
Cape |
1937 |
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| My Uncle Silas |
Cape |
1939 |
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| The Flying Goat |
Cape |
1939 |
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| Country Tales |
RU |
1938 |
Tissue DW |
| The Beauty of the Dead |
Cape |
1940 |
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| The Greatest People in the World |
Cape |
1943 |
as Flying Officer X |
| How Sleep the Brave |
Cape |
1942 |
as Flying Officer X |
| The Bride Comes to Evenford |
Cape |
1943 |
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| The Day of Glory |
Joseph |
1945 |
Play |
| Thirty-One Selected Tales |
Cape |
1947 |
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| Dear Life |
Joseph |
1950 |
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| Colonel Julian |
Joseph |
1951 |
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| Twenty Tales |
Cape |
1951 |
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| The Nature of Love |
Joseph |
1953 |
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| The Daffodil Sky |
Joseph |
1955 |
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| Sugar for the Horse |
Joseph |
1957 |
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| Death of a Huntsman |
Joseph |
1957 |
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| The Watercress Girl |
Joseph |
1959 |
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| An Aspidistra in Babylon |
Joseph |
1960 |
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| Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal |
Joseph |
1961 |
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| The Golden Oriole |
Joseph |
1962 |
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| Seven by Five |
Joseph |
1963 |
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| The Fabulous Mrs V |
Joseph |
1964 |
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| The Wedding Party |
Joseph |
1965 |
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| The Wild Cherry Tree |
Joseph |
1968 |
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| The Four Beauties |
Joseph |
1968 |
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| The Song of the Wren |
Joseph |
1972 |
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| The Yellow Meads of Asphodel |
Joseph |
1976 |
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Children's Books - HE Bates
| Title |
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Date |
Notes |
| The Seekers |
Bumpus |
1926 |
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| The Season and the Gardener |
CUP |
1940 |
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| Achilles and the Donkey |
Dobson |
1962 |
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| Achilles and Diana |
Dobson |
1963 |
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| Achilles and the Twins |
Dobson |
1964 |
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| The White Admiral |
Dobson |
1968 |
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Non Fiction - HE Bates
| Title |
|
Date |
Notes |
| Threshing Day |
Foyles |
1931 |
300 copies |
| Flowers and Faces |
Cockerel |
1932 |
300 copies |
| Through the Woods |
Gollancz |
1936 |
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| The Modern Short Story |
Nelson |
1940 |
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| In the Heart of the Country |
Country Life |
1942 |
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| More than Happy Countryman |
Country Life |
1943 |
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| Country Life |
Penguin |
1943 |
pbo |
| The Tinkers of Elston |
Private |
1946 |
300 copies |
| The Country Heart |
Joseph |
1949 |
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| Edward Garnett |
Parrish |
1950 |
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| Flower Gardening |
CUP |
1950 |
pbo |
| Country of Wild Clover |
Joseph |
1952 |
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| The Face of England |
Batsford |
1952 |
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| The Vanished World |
Joseph |
1969 |
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| The Blossoming World |
Joseph |
1971 |
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| A Love of Flowers |
Joseph |
1971 |
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| The World in Ripeness |
Joseph |
1972 |
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| Fountain of Flowers |
Joseph |
1974 |
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