winifred holtby

By the author of South Riding comes a riveting novel of a young girl, Joanna Burton, who dares to dream big.

Winifred Holtby met Jean McWilliam in a WAAC camp at Huchenneville in France very near the end of the First World War. McWilliam was the camp commande

The community of South Riding, like the rest of the country, lives in the long shadow of war. A tormented man, he carries a heavy burden that locks hi

A rich, panoramic portrait of a Yorkshire community in the Thirties that carries surprising and refreshing echoes of our own time.

The timely and unmissable first novel by the author of South Riding.

* A delightful volume of short stories by Winifred Holtby, the much-loved Yorkshire writer

Caroline Denton-Smyth is an eccentric, dressed in trailing feathers and jangling beads, peering out from behind her lorgnette. Sitting alone in her We