Rumer Godden

For Emily Pool, India is a magical place where she has the freedom to escape her mother's suffocating influence. But as the cracks in Emily's family home are papered over, and the Pools strive to maintain an outward impression of respectability, it is through the Nikolides that Emily discovers that nothing in the town is quite as it seems . . .

Tracy Quinn, daughter of a screen star and raised on film sets around the world, returns to her adored family home, a country house named China Court. Her grandmother's recent death has set in motion events that threaten Tracy's future and the very existence of China Court.

A young London lawyer is sent to India to take the case for the defence when a statue of the God Shiva goes missing. There he falls in love with the elusive Artemis.

A summer holiday in France for an English family of five children is not the happy time they had expected… and what is the mystery about Mr Elliott?

Rumer Godden left India with her two daughters in l945 and found England battered by war. Sequel to 'A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep' (2492).

Sent back to England to live with her cousins, Nona missed her home in India, but with the help of her two Japanese dolls wishes can come true.

Seventeen-year-old Pippa is one of the many dancers in the Midlands City Ballet chosen to go on an Italian tour. In Venice she attracts the attention of Niccolo, a gondolier, and gradually becomes aware of a more grown-up, complex world.

Tonight is Diwali, the most magical night of the year, but Premlata is desolate - her family is too poor to have lamps.

Harriet is caught between two worlds: her older sister is no longer a playmate, her brother is still a little boy. And the comforting rhythm of her Indian childhood - the sounds of the jute factory, the colourful festivals that accompany each season and the eternal ebb and flow of the river on its journey to the Bay of Bengal - is about to be shattered by a tragic event.

Included here are dramatisations of three of Rumer Godden’s classic tales, as well as a fascinating interview with the renowned author.

Black Narcissus: A group of nuns establishing a remote mission in an old palace in the Himalayas is warned that it is no place for a nunnery. And as the Sisters' tragic destiny unfolds, those prophetic words are soon proved right.

The Greengage Summer: When their mother falls ill during a holiday to France, the Grey children are left to entertain themselves. Over the course of the long, hot summer, they are caught up in an adult world of deception and lies...

The Dark Horse: Set in Calcutta in 1933, this is the story of a thoroughbred racehorse, a jockey seeking a second chance, a shrewd Mother Superior and a miracle - all based on true events.

Brought up largely in India, Rumer Godden came to know the continent intimately. In her adolescence, spent chiefly in Britain, she found a vocation. The story of her life after her return to India - starting a dance school for British and Indian children, marriage to a charming but weak man, abandonment, bringing up two children - is an inspiring one.