Preface Writers

Alison Adburgham
Madame Solario

Max Arthur
Operation Heartbreak

Diana Athill
Midsummer Night in the Workhouse

Juliet Aykroyd
Family Roundabout

Christopher Beauman
On the Other Side

Julian Barnes
Amours de Voyage

Nina Bawden
Someone at a Distance

Cary Bazalgette
The Casino

Nicola Beauman
William an Englishman, Consequences, Diary of a Provincial Lady

Sally Beauman
Flush

Hilda Bernstein
The World that was Ours

Elizabeth Berridge
Tell It to a Stranger

Fiona Bevan
Miss Buncle Married

Rachel Billington
Making Conversation

Rodric Braithwaite
Into the Whirlwind

Neville Braybrooke
Every Eye

Celia Brayfield
They Were Sisters

Julia Briggs
There Were No Windows

Jane Brocket
High Wages

AS Byatt
The Winds of Heaven

Christopher Campbell-Howes
Gardeners' Choice

David Conville
The Priory

Rebecca Cohen
Greenery Street

Rachel Cooke
Harriet

Jilly Cooper
The New House

Jonathan Cutbill
Despised and Rejected

Elizabeth Day
The Call

Samantha Ellis
A Lady and Her Husband

Lucy Ellmann
Emmeline

Harriet Evans
Because of the Lockwoods

Richard Evans
The Oppermanns

Ruth Evans
On the Other Side

Adam Fergusson
The Sack of Bath

Lydia Fellgett
No Surrender, English Climate

Penelope Fitzgerald
House-Bound

Northrop Frye
Hetty Dorval

Juliet Gardiner
The Village, To Bed with Grand Music, Greengates

Claire Gardner
A Woman Novelist and Other Stories

Gretchen Gerzina
The Making of a Marchioness

Laura Godwin
Fidelity

Adam Gopnik
A London Child of the 1870s

Lyndall Gordon
The Wise Virgins, A Writer’s Diary

Ruth Gorb
A House in the Country

Victoria Gray
The Rector's daughter

Valerie Grove
Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting, Expiation

Christina Hardyment
How to Run Your Home without Help

Jenny Hartley
Few Eggs and No Oranges

Anne Harvey
Consider the Years, The Runaway

Philip Hensher
The Journey Home and Other Stories

Michael Herbert
Out of the Window

Susan Hill
The Far Cry

Eva Hoffman
An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum

Jeremy Holmes
Saplings

Simon Hopkinson
The Country Life Cookery Book

Eva Ibbotson
Manja

PD James
The Victorian Chaise-longue

Clara Jones
A Room of One's Own

Karen Knox
The Home-Maker

David Kynaston
London War Notes, Tory Heaven

Harriet Lane
Mariana

Charlie Lee-Potter
Effi Briest

Gregory LeStage
Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes

Charles Lock
Greenbanks

Terence Handley MacMath
They Knew Mr Knight

Henry Mance
Two Cheers for Democracy: a Selection

Patricia McClelland Miller
Heat Lightning

Candia McWilliam
Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary

Lucy Mangan
Young Anne

Jessica Mann
Doreen

Jane Miller
Farewell Leicester Square

Charlotte Mitchell
The Young Pretenders, The Happy Tree

Michael Moorcock
The Hopkins Manuscript

Caroline Moorehead
Maman, What Are We Called Now?

Janet Morgan
A New System of Domestic Cookery

Nicholas Mosley
Julian Grenfell

Julia Neuberger
Reuben Sachs

Frances Partridge
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding

Wendy Pollard
Miss Ranskill Comes Home

Dominic Power
The Expendable Man

Isabel Raphael
The Making of a Marchioness, As It Was and World Without End

Rachel Reeves
National Provincial

Emily Rhodes
Earth and High Heaven

Yvonne Roberts
A Woman’s Place

Celia Robertson
Vain Shadow

Little Boy Lost, The Shuttle, The Squire

Marion Shaw
The Crowded Street

Elaine Showalter
The Home-Maker

Jonathan Smith
Wilfred and Eileen

Emma Smith
The Far Cry

Frances Spalding
The Runaway

Peter Stansky
Milton Place

Sadie Stein
The Deepening Stream

Aline Templeton
Miss Buncle’s Book

Frances Thomas
Tea with Mr Rochester

Ann Thwaite
The Godwits Fly

Helen Tilly
Sofia Petrovna

Henrietta Twycross-Martin
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Anne Ullmann
Long Live Great Bardfield

Judith Viorst
It’s Hard to be Hip over Thirty and other Tragedies of Married Life

Edmund de Waal
The Exiles Return 

Victor de Waal
Milton Place

Valerie Waterhouse
The Journey Home and Other Stories 

Merryn Williams
The Mystery of Mrs Blencarrow

AN Wilson
Tell It to a Stranger

Jacqueline Wilson
The Children who Lived in a Barn