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Lucia Victrix
Penguin Books Ltd 1991; Not Available"Mapp & Lucia" first published in 1935. "Lucia's progress" first published 1935. "Trouble for Lucia" first published in 1939. more...
Miss Mapp
The Floating Press 1922; US$ 3.99Part of a series of novels that center around a pair of high-society matrons, Miss Mapp introduces one of the most gruff and deliciously malicious characters every to grace the literary canon. Readers who love to wallow in the spite, hatefulness, and backstabbing of the doyennes of the upper classes will delight in this book! more...
Queen Lucia
The Floating Press 1920; US$ 3.99The Mapp and Lucia series of novels penned by author E.F. Benson is a study in opposites. The vengeful and calculating Miss Mapp, whom many readers love to hate, is balanced out by the social graces of Lucia, who, though good-hearted and well-meaning, often finds herself mired in seemingly intractable snafus. Queen Lucia is the first novel in the series... more...
The Blotting Book
The Floating Press 1908; US$ 3.99Though British writer E.F. Benson is best remembered today as the creator of the Mapp and Lucia series of wickedly funny social satires, the prolific author also made several forays into mysteries. The Blotting Book begins with the discovery of a mutilated body and rapidly evolves into a tightly plotted whodunit that will enthrall fans of the genre. more...
Daisy's Aunt
The Floating Press 1910; US$ 3.99Best known as the creator of the Mapp and Lucia series, E.F. Benson was a prolific fiction writer and memoirist who produced a wide range of works over the course of his career. Daisy's Aunt is a rollicking comedy of manners in which a young socialite's plans for marriage are thwarted by a scheming aunt. Does she have Daisy's best interests at heart?... more...
Michael
The Floating Press 2011; US$ 3.99Can't get enough of E.F. Benson's charming Mapp and Lucia series? Explore another side of the British playwright and novelist's literary talent in the period piece Michael, which offers a glimpse into the life of the seemingly ordinary but remarkably good and kind protagonist Michael Comber. Filled with the keen details about social interactions... more...
Crescent and Iron Cross
The Floating Press 2011; US$ 4.99Though primarily remembered today as a novelist and playwright, British author E.F. Benson was also an insightful historian and critic who published several volumes of analysis pertaining to the emergence of Europe and its cultural, political, and economic legacy. Crescent and Iron Cross is a fascinating history of Turkey and its role as the crossroads... more...
Mapp And Lucia
Random House Group Ltd 2013; US$ 8.00At last they meet - the two most formidable ladies in English literature collide in genteel and deadly enmity. Lucia shakes the dust of Riseholme from her elegant feet and, with Georgie Pilson as devoted courtier, prepares to conquer the high society of Tilling. And Miss Mapp, her features corrugated by chronic rage and curiosity, can only prepare... more...
Mapp and Lucia
Random House Group Ltd 2011; US$ 12.00Miss Elizabeth Mapp reigns supreme over the village of Tilling...until the advent of Mrs Emmeline Lucas, or 'Lucia' to her friends. No one could compete, surely, with Lucia's formidable armoury: her duchesses, her Italian, her financial speculations, her celebrated recipe for Lobster à la Riseholme. But Mapp will not relinquish her supremacy in... more...
Lucia Rising
Penguin Books Ltd 1991; Not AvailableThree of Benson's Lucia stories. "Queen Lucia" was published in 1920, "Miss Mapp" in 1922 and "Lucia in London" in 1927. They are much-loved novels of provincial snobbery and became a successful television series. more...









