New Releases by Rumer Godden

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.

The doll that traditionally decorates the family Christmas tree becomes the good fairy to a clumsy and timid little girl. Grades 2-4.

The mousewife was the perfect little housewife but she wanted more. One day a captive dove was brought to live in the house and the mousewife learns the meaning of altruism.

A novel describing a day in Madame Holbein''s ballet school in London.

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.