Never before available in the United States, this rediscovered masterpiece from Isabel Colegate, author of The Shooting Party, offers readers "just the right mixture of doomed fun, melancholy and faintly lascivious despair" (The Observer)“I am afraid I have something to tell you . . . It is that we are all about to be destroyed.”The old standards are going. There is bitterness in politics, talk of civil war in I...

'As a novelist of English manners, Isabel Colegate has no rival.' - The Times'Colegate's prose is flowing and unpretentious. She tells an excellent tale.' - Daily Telegraph'[Colegate's] strengths - neat psychological details, coolly literate narration, dry humor - are on ample display throughout.' Kirkus ReviewsAnthony Lane is dead, a casualty of the Korean War, and at home in England he is praised a hero. But Baldwin Reeves, who served with him, knows the truth: La...

A full-cast adaptation of Isabel Colegate's acclaimed novel, one of the inspirations behind Downton AbbeyThis captivating drama, narrated by Academy Award winner Olivia Colman (The Crown, Broadchurch, Wonka), is an exquisite elegy for a vanished world. Funny, compassionate and quietly devastating, it captures the final days of Edwardian England with extraordinary precision, on the cusp of irrevocable change....

A leisurely weekend among the British gentry reveals the cracks in their upper-class society in this "beautifully crafted" historical fiction novel set in pre-WWI England (Washington Post).It is the autumn of 1913. Sir Randolph Nettleby has assembled a brilliant array of guests at his Oxfordshire estate for the biggest hunt of the season. An army of gamekeepers, beaters, and servants has rehearsed the intricate age–old rit...