New Releases by Rumer Godden

After Cat has her four kittens, she has to find suitable homes for them.

Adolescence.

This book portrays the enormous diversity of life styles and the wide ranging ethnic differences among the peoples of India.

A young boy of Cyprus goes to work for the United Nations peace-keeping forces when his donkey becomes their property but refuses to work for them.

Modern love story, set in Cornwall and interwoven with the living past of five generations of the Quin family, and illustrative of life - as Chaucer says - as a "thinne subtil knittinge of thinges". A medieval book of hours plays a part in the plot.

An illustrated retelling of the legend of Saint Jerome and the lion that he sheltered in his monastery.

For more than half a century, Rumer Godden has been known as one of the finest and subtlest writers of our day (Saturday Review). Now one of her most endearing classics is being reissued for a new generation of readers. China Court is the story of the hours and days of a country house in Wales and five generations of the family who inhabited it.

Effect of the arrival of two English airmen on the people of a remote Pacific Island.

In this second autobiography the author describes the progression of her life as she leaves India with her two daughters and settles in London. She tells of her house moves, relationships and writing with characteristic wit and humour.