I have suddenly found myself in possession of no fewer than ten books by this author: some novels, others short story collections. I haven't the faintest idea whether or not I will like them, but the TBR list is pretty long already, so I will give one a go and take it from there.

Books by H.E. Bates:

A Breath of French Air
A Crown of Wild Myrtle
A Fountain of Flowers
A German Idyll
A House of Women
A Little of What You Fancy
A Love of Flowers
A Moment in Time
A Threshing Day
Achilles and Diana
Achilles and the Twins
Achilles the Donkey
An Aspidistra in Babylon
Catherine Foster
Charlotte's Row
Colonel Julien
Country Life
Country Tales
Cut and Come Again
Day's End and Other Stories
Dear Life
Death of a Huntsman
Down the River
Dulcima
Edward Garnett
Fair Stood the Wind for France
Flowers and Faces
Flying Bombs over England
How Sleep the Brave
I Am Not Myself
In the Heart of the Country
Love for Lydia
Mrs Esmond's Life
My Uncle Silas
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
O More Than Happy Countryman
Oh! To be in England
Sally Go Round the Moon
Seven by Five
Seven Tales and Alexander
Something Short and Sweet
Spella Ho
Sugar for the Horse
The Beauty of the Dead
The Black Boxer
The Blossoming World
The Bride Comes to Evensford and Other Tales
The Country Heart
The Country of White Clover
The Cruise of the Breadwinner
The Daffodil Sky
The Darling Buds of May
The Day of Glory
The Day of the Tortoise
The Distant Horns of Summer
The Duet
The Fabulous Mrs V
The Fallow Land
The Feast of July
The Flying Goat
The Four Beauties
The Golden Oriole
The Grass God
The Greatest People in the World
The Hessian Prisoner
The House with the Apricot
The Jacaranda Tree
The Last Bread
The Modern Short Story
The Nature of Love
The Poacher
The Scarlet Sword
The Seasons & The Gardener
The Seekers
The Sleepless Moon
The Song of the Wren
The Spring Song and In View of the Fact That
The Story Without an End
The Tinkers of Elstow
The Tree
The Triple Echo
The Two Sisters
The Vanished World
The Watercress Girl
The Wedding Party
The White Admiral
The Wild Cherry Tree
The Woman who had Imagination
The World in Ripeness
The Yellow Meads of Asphodel
There's Freedom in the Air
Thirty Tales
Through the Woods
War Pictures by British Artists
When the Green Woods Laugh

RELEASE NOTES:

At the OBCZ with a whole load of other books, mostly by H.E. Bates.