The Village Tales Series

The Village Tales series is a series of novels: Cross and Poppy (2013), Evensong (2015), The Day Thou Gavest (2016), Ye Little Hills Like Lambs (2016). and Sermons In Chalk (Christmas 2018) – and the forthcoming Ordinary Time – by GMW Wemyss, set largely in South West Wiltshire.



 The novels may appear to focus upon such potential protagonists as the young Rector of the parishes, Canon Noel Paddick; the fearsome Constance, Lady Trulock; the charming but formidable Duchess of Taunton; or the outrageous Duke of Taunton, one of the great British eccentrics; but the villages of Woolfont Magna, Woolfont Crucis, and Woolfont Abbas, the hamlet of Woolfont Parva, the neighbouring Downland villages, the villagers, and the land itself are perhaps the true heroes and leading characters.

Contemporary, and written in real time, the Village Tales are regarded by their select (but fierce, and growing) fans as ‘Trollope for today’, ‘Wodehouse in a real world’, and modern equivalents to Jane Austen, Barbara Pym, and Miss Read. At once timeless and urgently current, the world of the Woolfonts beckons, with tea, cricket, Mattins, crises, quarrels, and, always, resolution and redress.

Series
Cross and Poppy  (2013)

Evensong  (2015)

The Day Thou Gavest  (2016)

Ye Little Hills Like Lambs (2016)

Sermons In Chalk (2018)

Ordinary Time (forthcoming 2019)

Future
(in alphabetical, not proposed publication, order)

After the Call of Time

All Skilful in the Wars

And Battles Long Ago

The Country Parson

The Cure of All Diseases

<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-left:0.49in;margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;">Desires and Petitions

<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-left:0.49in;margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;">A Domestic Interior

<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-left:0.49in;margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;">A Fêted End

<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-left:0.49in;margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;">Gaudete

<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-left:0.49in;margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;">The Glory and the Dream

<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-left:0.49in;margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;">His Ministers a Flaming Fire

<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-left:0.49in;margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;">In Lenten Array

<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-left:0.49in;margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;">The Light of Other Days

<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-left:0.49in;margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;">Offered the Light

<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-left:0.49in;margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;">A Parenthesis in Eternity

<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-left:0.49in;margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;">The Rigour of the Game

<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-left:0.49in;margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;">Some Work of Noble Note

<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-left:0.49in;margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;">Splendid in Ashes

<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-left:0.49in;margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;">The Spoils of Time

<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-left:0.49in;margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;">The Taunton Papers

<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-left:0.49in;margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;">The Test of Greatness

<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-left:0.49in;margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;">Tho’ Much Is Taken, Much Abides

<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-left:0.49in;margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;">The Work of the Humble

<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-left:0.49in;margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;">Worthy Is the Lamb