R. F. Delderfield, a respected author, playwright, screenwriter, and newspaperman, was born in Greenwich, England, in 1912 and became a full-time author after a stint as a small-town reporter and an RAF hitch in World War II. According to The New York Times Book Review, Delderfield wrote ”with vigor, unceasing narrative drive, and a high degree of craftsmanship, ” and he described himself as ”a compulsive teller of tales, a real chronic case.” Delderfield died in 1972.
26 E-böcker av R. F. Delderfield
R. F. Delderfield: To Serve Them All My Days
Miner’s son David Powlett-Jones returns from the carnage of the Western Front in 1918, shell-shocked and bitterly hardened by the violence of war. He begins life again as a master at a remote Devon …
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R. F. Delderfield: All Over the Town
Nat Hearn came back from the War to be assistan editor and can carrier in chief of the Sandcome Clarion. R.F. Delderfield takes the lid off small town life with a relish born of experience and …
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R. F. Delderfield: Dreaming Suburb
Jim Carver: a tough, resolute war veteran, he returns from the trenches to build a better life for his family to find his wife dead. Archie Carver: Jim’s eldest son, smart, ruthless, he has a quick …
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R. F. Delderfield: Avenue Goes to War
Life didn’t stop in the Avenue because the war had started . . . Berni Carver joins up with the Commandos with his twin brother hoping they will serve out the war together. Archie Carver is …
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R. F. Delderfield: Theirs Was the Kingdom
The second book in R.F. Delderfield’s Swann family saga. Adam Swann’s expanding business empire now stretches as far north as the Scottish Highlands and as far west as the Dublin Pale. Alex, his …
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R. F. Delderfield: Give Us This Day
Adam Swann has grown old, and is struggling to keep up with the changing times. The Victorian age is giving way to the Edwardian and the horse is being overtaken by the motorcar, with devastating …
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R. F. Delderfield: Long Summer Day
1902-1911An age of innocence and hope.Before the storm clouds roll over Europe. As Paul Craddock recovers from his Boer War injuries, he starts to plan a new life. As soon as he is able he invests …
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R. F. Delderfield: Cheap Day Return
Kent Stuart left the West Country town of Redcliffe Bay more than thirty years ago, pursued by the guilt and shame of a scandal that cost him his youth and happiness. Having led an exciting life as a …
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R. F. Delderfield: Come Home Charlie & Face Them
The real motive wasn’t love and it wasn’t greed . . . It rose to the surface out of a grey pit of boredom. When Charlie Pritchard is shown a way to escape his mundane and monotonous life as a …
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R. F. Delderfield: Too Few for Drums
A classic tale of the Napoleonic wars from R.F. Delderfield. After the British victory at Busaco during the Peninsula campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars, Ensign Keith Graham finds himself cut off from …
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R. F. Delderfield: Post of Honour
1912-1940A generation fallen. A country that will never be the same again. Nowhere in England avoids the searing loss of young men during the First World War and the remote Devon village of …
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R. F. Delderfield: Diana
Beautiful, resourceful, treacherous, vulnerable. She was a woman full of contradictions and he would never stop loving her. As a young girl Diana is irrepressible, untameable and, to the orphaned …
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R. F. Delderfield: God is an Englishman
Adam Swann is hungry for success. He is one of the new breed of entrepreneurs thrown up by the Industrial Revolution, determined to take advantage of current economic conditions to build an …
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R. F. Delderfield: Spring Madness of Mr Sermon
It happened on the second day of the summer term. Was it caused by the smell of lilac, the droning of the bees, or the French incense which Lane-Perkins had set alight? Nobody knew, but that spring …
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R. F. Delderfield: Too Few for Drums
This tale of the Peninsular Campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars offers unforgettable adventure. A group of ten set out to wend their way out from behind French lines in Portugal and back to the British …
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R. F. Delderfield: Dreaming Suburb
Between the wars, the lives of four neighboring English families intersect in this “highly recommended” saga by a New York Times–bestselling author (Sunday Express). In the spring …
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R. F. Delderfield: Avenue Goes to War
The residents of a South London street face World War II together in this novel from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Dreaming Suburb. Years ago, the Great War tore apart the lives …
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R. F. Delderfield: Diana
From the New York Times–bestselling author of God is an Englishman comes the timeless story of a love that could not be denied, set in the countryside of early twentieth-century England. …
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R. F. Delderfield: Post of Honour
A rural English family endures as the Great War endsand more storm clouds loomin this saga from the New York Timesbestselling author of the Avenue novels. Through hard work and love of the land, Boer …
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R. F. Delderfield: Green Gauntlet
R. F. Delderfield concludes his bestselling A Horseman Riding By saga of twentieth-century England with a novel that follows the Craddock family through the end of World War II and the challenges of …
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R. F. Delderfield: Green Gauntlet
R. F. Delderfield concludes his bestselling A Horseman Riding By saga of twentieth-century England with a novel that follows the Craddock family through the end of World War II and the challenges of …
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R. F. Delderfield: Long Summer Day
A great read for fans of PBS’s Poldark and Downton Abbeyfirst in the saga of a man returning from battle to an estate in the pre-WWI English countryside. After serving his country in the Boer War, …
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R. F. Delderfield: Post of Honour
A rural English family endures as the Great War endsand more storm clouds loomin this saga from the New York Timesbestselling author of the Avenue novels. Through hard work and love of the land, Boer …
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€22.53
R. F. Delderfield: March of the Twenty-Six
Between the years 1804 and 1815, Napoleon created twenty-six Marshals of France. These men, who held the highest positions in the Empire after Napoleon himself, came from very diverse backgrounds and …
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R. F. Delderfield: March of the Twenty-Six
Between the years 1804 and 1815, Napoleon created twenty-six Marshals of France. These men, who held the highest positions in the Empire after Napoleon himself, came from very diverse backgrounds and …
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