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Month 1 Gift Selection 1. William – an Englishman 2. Mariana 3. Someone at a Distance 4. Fidelity 5. An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum 1941–43 6. The Victorian Chaise-longue 7. The Home-Maker 8. Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes 9. Few Eggs and No Oranges 10. Good Things in England 11. Julian Grenfell 12. It’s Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty 13. Consequences 14. Farewell Leicester Square 15. Tell It to a Stranger 16. Saplings 17. Marjory Fleming 18. Every Eye 19. They Knew Mr Knight 20. A Woman’s Place: 1910–75 21. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day 22. Consider the Years 23. Reuben Sachs 24. Family Roundabout 25. The Montana Stories 26. Brook Evans 27. The Children who Lived in a Barn 28. Little Boy Lost 29. The Making of a Marchioness 30. Kitchen Essays 31. A House in the Country 32. The Carlyles at Home 33. The Far Cry 34. Minnie’s Room: The Peacetime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes 35. Greenery Street 36. Lettice Delmer 37. The Runaway 38. Cheerful Weather for the Wedding 39. Manja 40. The Priory 41. Hostages to Fortune 42. The Blank Wall 43. The Wise Virgins 44. Tea with Mr Rochester 45. Good Food on the Aga 46. Miss Ranskill Comes Home 47. The New House 48. The Casino 49. Bricks and Mortar 50. The World that was Ours 51. Operation Heartbreak 52. The Village 53. Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary 54. They Can’t Ration These 55. Flush 56. They Were Sisters 57. The Hopkins Manuscript 58. Hetty Dorval 59. There Were No Windows 60. Doreen 61. A London Child of the 1870s 62. How To Run Your Home Without Help 63. Princes in the Land 64. The Woman Novelist and Other Stories 65. Alas, Poor Lady 66. Gardener’s Nightcap 67. The Fortnight in September 68. The Expendable Man 69. Journal 70. Plats du Jour 71. The Shuttle 72. House-Bound 73. The Young Pretenders 74. The Closed Door and Other Stories 75. On the Other Side: Letters to my Children from Germany 1940–46 76. The Crowded Street 77. Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting 78. A Very Great Profession 79. Round About a Pound a Week 80. The Country Housewife’s Book 81. Miss Buncle’s Book 82. Amours de Voyage 83. Making Conversation 84. A New System of Domestic Cookery 85. High Wages 86. To Bed with Grand Music 87. Dimanche and Other Stories 88. Still Missing 89. The Mystery of Mrs Blencarrow 90. The Winds of Heaven 91. Miss Buncle Married 92. Midsummer Night in the Workhouse 93. The Sack of Bath 94. No Surrender 95. Greenbanks 96. Dinners for Beginners 97. Harriet 98. A Writer’s Diary 99. Patience 100. The Persephone Book of Short Stories 101. Heat Lightning 102. The Exiles Return 103. The Squire 104. The Two Mrs Abbotts 105. Diary of a Provincial Lady 106. Into the Whirlwind 107. Wilfred and Eileen 108. The Happy Tree 109. The Country Life Cookery Book 110. Because of the Lockwoods 111. London War Notes 112. Vain Shadow 113. Greengates 114. Gardeners’ Choice 115. Maman, What Are We Called Now? 116. A Lady and Her Husband 117. The Godwits Fly 118. Every Good Deed and Other Stories 119. Long Live Great Bardfield 120. Madame Solario 121. Effi Briest 122. Earth and High Heaven 123. Emmeline 124. The Journey Home and Other Stories 125. Guard Your Daughters 126. Despised and Rejected 127. Young Anne 128. Tory Heaven 129. The Call 130. National Provincial 131. Milton Place 132. The Second Persephone Book of Short Stories 133. Expiation 134. A Room of One's Own 135. One Woman's Year 136. The Oppermanns 137. English Climate: Wartime Stories 138. The New Magdalen 139. Random Commentary

Month 2 Gift Selection 1. William – an Englishman 2. Mariana 3. Someone at a Distance 4. Fidelity 5. An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum 1941–43 6. The Victorian Chaise-longue 7. The Home-Maker 8. Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes 9. Few Eggs and No Oranges 10. Good Things in England 11. Julian Grenfell 12. It’s Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty 13. Consequences 14. Farewell Leicester Square 15. Tell It to a Stranger 16. Saplings 17. Marjory Fleming 18. Every Eye 19. They Knew Mr Knight 20. A Woman’s Place: 1910–75 21. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day 22. Consider the Years 23. Reuben Sachs 24. Family Roundabout 25. The Montana Stories 26. Brook Evans 27. The Children who Lived in a Barn 28. Little Boy Lost 29. The Making of a Marchioness 30. Kitchen Essays 31. A House in the Country 32. The Carlyles at Home 33. The Far Cry 34. Minnie’s Room: The Peacetime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes 35. Greenery Street 36. Lettice Delmer 37. The Runaway 38. Cheerful Weather for the Wedding 39. Manja 40. The Priory 41. Hostages to Fortune 42. The Blank Wall 43. The Wise Virgins 44. Tea with Mr Rochester 45. Good Food on the Aga 46. Miss Ranskill Comes Home 47. The New House 48. The Casino 49. Bricks and Mortar 50. The World that was Ours 51. Operation Heartbreak 52. The Village 53. Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary 54. They Can’t Ration These 55. Flush 56. They Were Sisters 57. The Hopkins Manuscript 58. Hetty Dorval 59. There Were No Windows 60. Doreen 61. A London Child of the 1870s 62. How To Run Your Home Without Help 63. Princes in the Land 64. The Woman Novelist and Other Stories 65. Alas, Poor Lady 66. Gardener’s Nightcap 67. The Fortnight in September 68. The Expendable Man 69. Journal 70. Plats du Jour 71. The Shuttle 72. House-Bound 73. The Young Pretenders 74. The Closed Door and Other Stories 75. On the Other Side: Letters to my Children from Germany 1940–46 76. The Crowded Street 77. Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting 78. A Very Great Profession 79. Round About a Pound a Week 80. The Country Housewife’s Book 81. Miss Buncle’s Book 82. Amours de Voyage 83. Making Conversation 84. A New System of Domestic Cookery 85. High Wages 86. To Bed with Grand Music 87. Dimanche and Other Stories 88. Still Missing 89. The Mystery of Mrs Blencarrow 90. The Winds of Heaven 91. Miss Buncle Married 92. Midsummer Night in the Workhouse 93. The Sack of Bath 94. No Surrender 95. Greenbanks 96. Dinners for Beginners 97. Harriet 98. A Writer’s Diary 99. Patience 100. The Persephone Book of Short Stories 101. Heat Lightning 102. The Exiles Return 103. The Squire 104. The Two Mrs Abbotts 105. Diary of a Provincial Lady 106. Into the Whirlwind 107. Wilfred and Eileen 108. The Happy Tree 109. The Country Life Cookery Book 110. Because of the Lockwoods 111. London War Notes 112. Vain Shadow 113. Greengates 114. Gardeners’ Choice 115. Maman, What Are We Called Now? 116. A Lady and Her Husband 117. The Godwits Fly 118. Every Good Deed and Other Stories 119. Long Live Great Bardfield 120. Madame Solario 121. Effi Briest 122. Earth and High Heaven 123. Emmeline 124. The Journey Home and Other Stories 125. Guard Your Daughters 126. Despised and Rejected 127. Young Anne 128. Tory Heaven 129. The Call 130. National Provincial 131. Milton Place 132. The Second Persephone Book of Short Stories 133. Expiation 134. A Room of One's Own 135. One Woman's Year 136. The Oppermanns 137. English Climate: Wartime Stories 138. The New Magdalen 139. Random Commentary

Month 3 Gift Selection 1. William – an Englishman 2. Mariana 3. Someone at a Distance 4. Fidelity 5. An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum 1941–43 6. The Victorian Chaise-longue 7. The Home-Maker 8. Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes 9. Few Eggs and No Oranges 10. Good Things in England 11. Julian Grenfell 12. It’s Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty 13. Consequences 14. Farewell Leicester Square 15. Tell It to a Stranger 16. Saplings 17. Marjory Fleming 18. Every Eye 19. They Knew Mr Knight 20. A Woman’s Place: 1910–75 21. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day 22. Consider the Years 23. Reuben Sachs 24. Family Roundabout 25. The Montana Stories 26. Brook Evans 27. The Children who Lived in a Barn 28. Little Boy Lost 29. The Making of a Marchioness 30. Kitchen Essays 31. A House in the Country 32. The Carlyles at Home 33. The Far Cry 34. Minnie’s Room: The Peacetime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes 35. Greenery Street 36. Lettice Delmer 37. The Runaway 38. Cheerful Weather for the Wedding 39. Manja 40. The Priory 41. Hostages to Fortune 42. The Blank Wall 43. The Wise Virgins 44. Tea with Mr Rochester 45. Good Food on the Aga 46. Miss Ranskill Comes Home 47. The New House 48. The Casino 49. Bricks and Mortar 50. The World that was Ours 51. Operation Heartbreak 52. The Village 53. Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary 54. They Can’t Ration These 55. Flush 56. They Were Sisters 57. The Hopkins Manuscript 58. Hetty Dorval 59. There Were No Windows 60. Doreen 61. A London Child of the 1870s 62. How To Run Your Home Without Help 63. Princes in the Land 64. The Woman Novelist and Other Stories 65. Alas, Poor Lady 66. Gardener’s Nightcap 67. The Fortnight in September 68. The Expendable Man 69. Journal 70. Plats du Jour 71. The Shuttle 72. House-Bound 73. The Young Pretenders 74. The Closed Door and Other Stories 75. On the Other Side: Letters to my Children from Germany 1940–46 76. The Crowded Street 77. Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting 78. A Very Great Profession 79. Round About a Pound a Week 80. The Country Housewife’s Book 81. Miss Buncle’s Book 82. Amours de Voyage 83. Making Conversation 84. A New System of Domestic Cookery 85. High Wages 86. To Bed with Grand Music 87. Dimanche and Other Stories 88. Still Missing 89. The Mystery of Mrs Blencarrow 90. The Winds of Heaven 91. Miss Buncle Married 92. Midsummer Night in the Workhouse 93. The Sack of Bath 94. No Surrender 95. Greenbanks 96. Dinners for Beginners 97. Harriet 98. A Writer’s Diary 99. Patience 100. The Persephone Book of Short Stories 101. Heat Lightning 102. The Exiles Return 103. The Squire 104. The Two Mrs Abbotts 105. Diary of a Provincial Lady 106. Into the Whirlwind 107. Wilfred and Eileen 108. The Happy Tree 109. The Country Life Cookery Book 110. Because of the Lockwoods 111. London War Notes 112. Vain Shadow 113. Greengates 114. Gardeners’ Choice 115. Maman, What Are We Called Now? 116. A Lady and Her Husband 117. The Godwits Fly 118. Every Good Deed and Other Stories 119. Long Live Great Bardfield 120. Madame Solario 121. Effi Briest 122. Earth and High Heaven 123. Emmeline 124. The Journey Home and Other Stories 125. Guard Your Daughters 126. Despised and Rejected 127. Young Anne 128. Tory Heaven 129. The Call 130. National Provincial 131. Milton Place 132. The Second Persephone Book of Short Stories 133. Expiation 134. A Room of One's Own 135. One Woman's Year 136. The Oppermanns 137. English Climate: Wartime Stories 138. The New Magdalen 139. Random Commentary

Month 4 Gift Selection 1. William – an Englishman 2. Mariana 3. Someone at a Distance 4. Fidelity 5. An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum 1941–43 6. The Victorian Chaise-longue 7. The Home-Maker 8. Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes 9. Few Eggs and No Oranges 10. Good Things in England 11. Julian Grenfell 12. It’s Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty 13. Consequences 14. Farewell Leicester Square 15. Tell It to a Stranger 16. Saplings 17. Marjory Fleming 18. Every Eye 19. They Knew Mr Knight 20. A Woman’s Place: 1910–75 21. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day 22. Consider the Years 23. Reuben Sachs 24. Family Roundabout 25. The Montana Stories 26. Brook Evans 27. The Children who Lived in a Barn 28. Little Boy Lost 29. The Making of a Marchioness 30. Kitchen Essays 31. A House in the Country 32. The Carlyles at Home 33. The Far Cry 34. Minnie’s Room: The Peacetime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes 35. Greenery Street 36. Lettice Delmer 37. The Runaway 38. Cheerful Weather for the Wedding 39. Manja 40. The Priory 41. Hostages to Fortune 42. The Blank Wall 43. The Wise Virgins 44. Tea with Mr Rochester 45. Good Food on the Aga 46. Miss Ranskill Comes Home 47. The New House 48. The Casino 49. Bricks and Mortar 50. The World that was Ours 51. Operation Heartbreak 52. The Village 53. Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary 54. They Can’t Ration These 55. Flush 56. They Were Sisters 57. The Hopkins Manuscript 58. Hetty Dorval 59. There Were No Windows 60. Doreen 61. A London Child of the 1870s 62. How To Run Your Home Without Help 63. Princes in the Land 64. The Woman Novelist and Other Stories 65. Alas, Poor Lady 66. Gardener’s Nightcap 67. The Fortnight in September 68. The Expendable Man 69. Journal 70. Plats du Jour 71. The Shuttle 72. House-Bound 73. The Young Pretenders 74. The Closed Door and Other Stories 75. On the Other Side: Letters to my Children from Germany 1940–46 76. The Crowded Street 77. Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting 78. A Very Great Profession 79. Round About a Pound a Week 80. The Country Housewife’s Book 81. Miss Buncle’s Book 82. Amours de Voyage 83. Making Conversation 84. A New System of Domestic Cookery 85. High Wages 86. To Bed with Grand Music 87. Dimanche and Other Stories 88. Still Missing 89. The Mystery of Mrs Blencarrow 90. The Winds of Heaven 91. Miss Buncle Married 92. Midsummer Night in the Workhouse 93. The Sack of Bath 94. No Surrender 95. Greenbanks 96. Dinners for Beginners 97. Harriet 98. A Writer’s Diary 99. Patience 100. The Persephone Book of Short Stories 101. Heat Lightning 102. The Exiles Return 103. The Squire 104. The Two Mrs Abbotts 105. Diary of a Provincial Lady 106. Into the Whirlwind 107. Wilfred and Eileen 108. The Happy Tree 109. The Country Life Cookery Book 110. Because of the Lockwoods 111. London War Notes 112. Vain Shadow 113. Greengates 114. Gardeners’ Choice 115. Maman, What Are We Called Now? 116. A Lady and Her Husband 117. The Godwits Fly 118. Every Good Deed and Other Stories 119. Long Live Great Bardfield 120. Madame Solario 121. Effi Briest 122. Earth and High Heaven 123. Emmeline 124. The Journey Home and Other Stories 125. Guard Your Daughters 126. Despised and Rejected 127. Young Anne 128. Tory Heaven 129. The Call 130. National Provincial 131. Milton Place 132. The Second Persephone Book of Short Stories 133. Expiation 134. A Room of One's Own 135. One Woman's Year 136. The Oppermanns 137. English Climate: Wartime Stories 138. The New Magdalen 139. Random Commentary

Month 5 Gift Selection 1. William – an Englishman 2. Mariana 3. Someone at a Distance 4. Fidelity 5. An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum 1941–43 6. The Victorian Chaise-longue 7. The Home-Maker 8. Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes 9. Few Eggs and No Oranges 10. Good Things in England 11. Julian Grenfell 12. It’s Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty 13. Consequences 14. Farewell Leicester Square 15. Tell It to a Stranger 16. Saplings 17. Marjory Fleming 18. Every Eye 19. They Knew Mr Knight 20. A Woman’s Place: 1910–75 21. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day 22. Consider the Years 23. Reuben Sachs 24. Family Roundabout 25. The Montana Stories 26. Brook Evans 27. The Children who Lived in a Barn 28. Little Boy Lost 29. The Making of a Marchioness 30. Kitchen Essays 31. A House in the Country 32. The Carlyles at Home 33. The Far Cry 34. Minnie’s Room: The Peacetime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes 35. Greenery Street 36. Lettice Delmer 37. The Runaway 38. Cheerful Weather for the Wedding 39. Manja 40. The Priory 41. Hostages to Fortune 42. The Blank Wall 43. The Wise Virgins 44. Tea with Mr Rochester 45. Good Food on the Aga 46. Miss Ranskill Comes Home 47. The New House 48. The Casino 49. Bricks and Mortar 50. The World that was Ours 51. Operation Heartbreak 52. The Village 53. Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary 54. They Can’t Ration These 55. Flush 56. They Were Sisters 57. The Hopkins Manuscript 58. Hetty Dorval 59. There Were No Windows 60. Doreen 61. A London Child of the 1870s 62. How To Run Your Home Without Help 63. Princes in the Land 64. The Woman Novelist and Other Stories 65. Alas, Poor Lady 66. Gardener’s Nightcap 67. The Fortnight in September 68. The Expendable Man 69. Journal 70. Plats du Jour 71. The Shuttle 72. House-Bound 73. The Young Pretenders 74. The Closed Door and Other Stories 75. On the Other Side: Letters to my Children from Germany 1940–46 76. The Crowded Street 77. Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting 78. A Very Great Profession 79. Round About a Pound a Week 80. The Country Housewife’s Book 81. Miss Buncle’s Book 82. Amours de Voyage 83. Making Conversation 84. A New System of Domestic Cookery 85. High Wages 86. To Bed with Grand Music 87. Dimanche and Other Stories 88. Still Missing 89. The Mystery of Mrs Blencarrow 90. The Winds of Heaven 91. Miss Buncle Married 92. Midsummer Night in the Workhouse 93. The Sack of Bath 94. No Surrender 95. Greenbanks 96. Dinners for Beginners 97. Harriet 98. A Writer’s Diary 99. Patience 100. The Persephone Book of Short Stories 101. Heat Lightning 102. The Exiles Return 103. The Squire 104. The Two Mrs Abbotts 105. Diary of a Provincial Lady 106. Into the Whirlwind 107. Wilfred and Eileen 108. The Happy Tree 109. The Country Life Cookery Book 110. Because of the Lockwoods 111. London War Notes 112. Vain Shadow 113. Greengates 114. Gardeners’ Choice 115. Maman, What Are We Called Now? 116. A Lady and Her Husband 117. The Godwits Fly 118. Every Good Deed and Other Stories 119. Long Live Great Bardfield 120. Madame Solario 121. Effi Briest 122. Earth and High Heaven 123. Emmeline 124. The Journey Home and Other Stories 125. Guard Your Daughters 126. Despised and Rejected 127. Young Anne 128. Tory Heaven 129. The Call 130. National Provincial 131. Milton Place 132. The Second Persephone Book of Short Stories 133. Expiation 134. A Room of One's Own 135. One Woman's Year 136. The Oppermanns 137. English Climate: Wartime Stories 138. The New Magdalen 139. Random Commentary

Month 6 Gift Selection 1. William – an Englishman 2. Mariana 3. Someone at a Distance 4. Fidelity 5. An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum 1941–43 6. The Victorian Chaise-longue 7. The Home-Maker 8. Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes 9. Few Eggs and No Oranges 10. Good Things in England 11. Julian Grenfell 12. It’s Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty 13. Consequences 14. Farewell Leicester Square 15. Tell It to a Stranger 16. Saplings 17. Marjory Fleming 18. Every Eye 19. They Knew Mr Knight 20. A Woman’s Place: 1910–75 21. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day 22. Consider the Years 23. Reuben Sachs 24. Family Roundabout 25. The Montana Stories 26. Brook Evans 27. The Children who Lived in a Barn 28. Little Boy Lost 29. The Making of a Marchioness 30. Kitchen Essays 31. A House in the Country 32. The Carlyles at Home 33. The Far Cry 34. Minnie’s Room: The Peacetime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes 35. Greenery Street 36. Lettice Delmer 37. The Runaway 38. Cheerful Weather for the Wedding 39. Manja 40. The Priory 41. Hostages to Fortune 42. The Blank Wall 43. The Wise Virgins 44. Tea with Mr Rochester 45. Good Food on the Aga 46. Miss Ranskill Comes Home 47. The New House 48. The Casino 49. Bricks and Mortar 50. The World that was Ours 51. Operation Heartbreak 52. The Village 53. Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary 54. They Can’t Ration These 55. Flush 56. They Were Sisters 57. The Hopkins Manuscript 58. Hetty Dorval 59. There Were No Windows 60. Doreen 61. A London Child of the 1870s 62. How To Run Your Home Without Help 63. Princes in the Land 64. The Woman Novelist and Other Stories 65. Alas, Poor Lady 66. Gardener’s Nightcap 67. The Fortnight in September 68. The Expendable Man 69. Journal 70. Plats du Jour 71. The Shuttle 72. House-Bound 73. The Young Pretenders 74. The Closed Door and Other Stories 75. On the Other Side: Letters to my Children from Germany 1940–46 76. The Crowded Street 77. Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting 78. A Very Great Profession 79. Round About a Pound a Week 80. The Country Housewife’s Book 81. Miss Buncle’s Book 82. Amours de Voyage 83. Making Conversation 84. A New System of Domestic Cookery 85. High Wages 86. To Bed with Grand Music 87. Dimanche and Other Stories 88. Still Missing 89. The Mystery of Mrs Blencarrow 90. The Winds of Heaven 91. Miss Buncle Married 92. Midsummer Night in the Workhouse 93. The Sack of Bath 94. No Surrender 95. Greenbanks 96. Dinners for Beginners 97. Harriet 98. A Writer’s Diary 99. Patience 100. The Persephone Book of Short Stories 101. Heat Lightning 102. The Exiles Return 103. The Squire 104. The Two Mrs Abbotts 105. Diary of a Provincial Lady 106. Into the Whirlwind 107. Wilfred and Eileen 108. The Happy Tree 109. The Country Life Cookery Book 110. Because of the Lockwoods 111. London War Notes 112. Vain Shadow 113. Greengates 114. Gardeners’ Choice 115. Maman, What Are We Called Now? 116. A Lady and Her Husband 117. The Godwits Fly 118. Every Good Deed and Other Stories 119. Long Live Great Bardfield 120. Madame Solario 121. Effi Briest 122. Earth and High Heaven 123. Emmeline 124. The Journey Home and Other Stories 125. Guard Your Daughters 126. Despised and Rejected 127. Young Anne 128. Tory Heaven 129. The Call 130. National Provincial 131. Milton Place 132. The Second Persephone Book of Short Stories 133. Expiation 134. A Room of One's Own 135. One Woman's Year 136. The Oppermanns 137. English Climate: Wartime Stories 138. The New Magdalen 139. Random Commentary