H.E. Bates

Herbert Ernest Bates who wrote as H.E. Bates (May 16 1905 - January 29 1974) was an English writer and author. He was born in Rushden, Northamptonshire and educated at Kettering Grammar School. After leaving school he worked as a reporter and a warehouse clerk. Many of his stories depict life in the rural Midlands of England.

During World War II he was commissioned as a writer by the RAF and wrote a number of novels under the pseudonym of "Flying Officer X". His best war novel, however, was written under his own name, Fair Stood the Wind for France.

A prolific and successful author in his own lifetime, his greatest success was however posthumous, with the television adaptation of his stories, The Darling Buds of May.and My Uncle Silas

In 1973 H E Bates was awarded the CBE.

Bibliography

• Achilles and Diana
• An Aspidystra in Babylon
• The Beauty of the Dead
• The Black Boxer
• The Blossoming World
• A Breath of French Air
• Charlotte's Row
• Colonel Julian
• The Country Heart
• Country Life The Country of White Clover
• A Crown of Wild Myrtle
• The Cruise of the Breadwinner
• Cut and Come Again
• The Daffodil Sky
• The Darling Buds of May
• The Day of the Tortoise
• Day's End and Other Stories
• Dear Life
• Death of a Huntsman
• Distant Horns of Summer
• Down the River
• The Duet
• Dulcima
• Elephant's Nest in a Rhubarb Tree and Other Stories
• The Fabulous Mrs V
• The Face of England
• Fair Stood the Wind for France
• The Feast of July
• Flying Bombs over England
• The Flying Goat
• A Fountain of Flowers
• The Four Beauties
• Go, Lovely Rose and Other Stories
• The Golden Oriole
• A House of Women
• In the Heart of the Country
• The Jacaranda Tree
• A Little of What You Fancy
• A Love of Flowers
• Love for Lydia
• The Modern Short Story
• A Moment in Time
• A Month by the Lake and Other Stories
• My Uncle Silas
• The Nature of Love
• Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
• Oh! to Be in England
• The Poacher
• The Purple Plain
• The Ripening World
• The Scarlet Sword
• The Seekers
• Seven Tales and Alexander
• The Sleepless Moon
• The Song of the Wren
• Spella-Ho
• Stories of Flying Officer 'X'
• Sugar for the Horse
• Through the Woods
• The Triple Echo
• The Two Sisters
• Vanished World
• When the Green Woods Laugh
• The White Admiral
• The Wild Cherry Tree
• The Woman Who Had Imagination
• World in Ripeness