This is a cheery boys' boarding school memoir, where modern life at the respected & very famous English school called Harrow, founded in 1572, & comparable to its main rival, Eton, is discussed.
The Source
Three keen hikers follow the course of a stream, and are amazed to find it starting from a spring on a glacier.
Free Country
There, shining in the sunrise, larger than they had seen him before, shaking his mane (for it had apparently grown again) stood Aslan himself.
"...when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards."
The banned writings of what a political prisoner dreams of how a free country would look, when the powers that be might well disagree.
Carve her name with pride.
A novel covering the life of a monument maker.
The Butler Did It
God rest you merry, gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay.
Remember Christ our Savior
Was born on Christmas Day
To save us all from Satan's pow'r
When we were gone astray.
An ex-butler's memoir laments why it is always the butler who is to blame.
The singing tree.
The school choir is ready for a big competition, so two new pupils can't join it yet. They start their own singing club under the shelter of a large tree.
Clover
There, shining in the sunrise, larger than they had seen him before, shaking his mane (for it had apparently grown again) stood Aslan himself.
"...when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards."
The first in a series of children's books about a cow named Clover and the trouble she gets into on the farm and elsewhere.
Winter Holiday
God rest you merry, gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay.
Remember Christ our Savior
Was born on Christmas Day
To save us all from Satan's pow'r
When we were gone astray.
A biographical travel tale of a family's winter holiday, spent in the opposite hemisphere, where it is summer.
Heat and dust
A historical novel about a19th century child cotton worker in northern England.
When Marnie Was There
There, shining in the sunrise, larger than they had seen him before, shaking his mane (for it had apparently grown again) stood Aslan himself.
"...when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards."
There is always someone whose presence makes the difference in outcome, when people group together for any reason, and Marnie's story of being in such a group provides the plot for this story.
And quiet flows the Don.
A humourous account of a man named Don who tries to take a nice, quiet vacation on a riverboat while avoiding multiple acquaintances, incidents, and shenanigans.
The Middle Sister
God rest you merry, gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay.
Remember Christ our Savior
Was born on Christmas Day
To save us all from Satan's pow'r
When we were gone astray.
A girl relates her experience of family car trips in her designated 'middle' seat, lamenting the restricted views, the lack of access to windows, and always being the last person to get out.
Student At The Gates
There, shining in the sunrise, larger than they had seen him before, shaking his mane (for it had apparently grown again) stood Aslan himself.
"...when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards."
A famously conservative private school decides to go co-educational, but will the aggrieved traditionalists, who have supported the school, allow the first intake of girl students to even enter the gates, in what could be a most interesting experiment, or will the traditionalists be won over, eventually, by good results?
My mother and I
A teenage girl looks at an old photo of her mother at the same age, and wishes herself into her mother's life at that age for a day. She finds many things difficult as well as different, and is grateful to wake as herself again the next morning.
Mort
There, shining in the sunrise, larger than they had seen him before, shaking his mane (for it had apparently grown again) stood Aslan himself.
"...when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards."
The saga of Mickey Mouse's nephew Morty as he grows up to become a dangerous gangster and shortens his name further for effect.
Spare
"Now you are a lioness," said Aslan. "And now all Narnia will be renewed."
(Prince Caspian)