Mortal Coils

Mortal Coils is a collection of five short fictional pieces written in 1922.
The stories all concern themselves with some sort of trouble, normally of an amorous nature, and often ending with disappointment.

CromeYellow

Crome Yellow is in the tradition of the English country house novel, as practiced most notably by Thomas Love Peacock, in which a diverse group of characters descend upon an estate to leech off the host. They spend most of their time eating, drinking, and holding forth on their personal intellectual conceits.

Things fall apart

Things Fall Apart is a 1958 English-language novel. It is a staple book in schools throughout Africa and widely read and studied in English-speaking countries around the world. It is seen as the archetypal modern African novel  in English, and one of the first African novels written in English to receive global critical acclaim. The title of the novel comes from William Butler Yeats's poem "The Second Coming".

The Adventurous Four Again

This somewhat belated sequel was first serialised in Sunny Stories  between February 8th 1946 and January 24th 1947. The action purports to take place in the Easter holidays of the year following The Adventurous Four,  which would make the time of the adventure 1942, but much of what is described in this story is plainly more appropriate to the time it was actually written.

The Adventurous Four

When Tom, Jill and Mary go to stay at a little fishing village in Scotland, the local fisherman's lad, Andy, promises to take them out in his boat. But a storm takes them off course and they end up shipwrecked on a small group of islands! Worse, it seems the islands are being used as a secret submarine base by the enemy...