Quotes by : H.E. Bates

Well, we have to do something. There are all sorts of rumours about soldiers coming up.""These people....

Miss Parkinson lived alone in a big bay-windowed house of Edwardian brick with a vast garden of decaying....

All day, after two days and nights of rain, water had been rising in the dykes and now it was creeping....

Every morning Mrs Eglantine sat at the round bamboo bar of the New Pacific Hotel and drank her breakfast.....