B-Berry Pleydell — by Dornford Yates

• 1914
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Daphne is 'well-born, elegant, beautiful, and not especially bright'. In this, Yates' earliest collection of stories, we meet the Pleydell clan and encounter their high-spirited comic adventures. It is a world of Edwardian gentility and accomplished ...

• 1920
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These comic stories are set during World War I and the period just after, when the genteel world of Edwardian England had changed beyond recognition. One of Yates' earliest books, it harks back to that more decorous, decadent time, and we encounter t...

• 1921
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This collection of short stories featuring 'Berry' Pleydell and his chaotic entourage established Dornford Yates' reputation as one of the best comic writers in a generation, and made him hugely popular. The German caricatures in the book carried suc...

• 1922
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These are some of Yates' early short stories featuring the comic Pleydell clan, and on publication proved just a successful and popular as Berry and Co had been. They describe the chaotic journey of the young, well-to-do heroes as they cavort across ...

• 1931
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This is the first full-length novel featuring Yates' finest comic creation, Bertram 'Berry' Pleydell. The popular character of Adéle is based on the author's first wife, Bettine, a highly gregarious American dancer and actress. Written in response t...

• 1936
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Eight stories in which we encounter 'the hair-raising adventures and idiotic situations of the Pleydell family' (Punch). Along with John Buchan and 'Sapper', Yates dominated the adventure book market of the inter-war years, and Berry is regarded as o...

• 1945
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A comic romp featuring the famous 'Berry' Pleydell and based on Yates' own experience of building a house for himself in the Pyrenées -- sumptuous, expensive and idyllically located. The house was seized by the Germans during World War II, and thi...

• 1947
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These stories, written in response to huge popular demand, give us classic Berry Pleydell -- Yates' finest comic character -- at the top of his form. The first story sees Berry capturing a German spy at a village cricket match in 1914, and things...

• 1952
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Reprinted four times in three months when first published, this semi-autobiographical novel is a humorous account of the author's hazardous experiences in France, at the end of the World War II. Darker and less frivolous than some of Yates' earlier b...

• 1958
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This is Yates' final book, a semi-autobiographical novel spanning a lifetime of events from the sinking of the Titanic to the notorious Tichborne murder case. It opens with Berry, one of British comic writing's finest creations, at his funniest, and ...