A companion book to the popular British series about the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants offers insights into the story and characters and background information on British society in the early years of the twentieth century.

The life of Audrey Forbes-Hamilton, who is horrified to discover that she is bankrupt and must sell her beloved Grantleigh Manor. She moves into the Manor's lodge, where she schemes to reclaim her ancestral home.

It's 1916 and British Captain Fred Roberts and his detachment discover an abandoned printing press in the ruins of Ypres, Belgium. Roberts has an idea, he will produce a newspaper to raise the spirits of his soldiers, taking their minds off 'the attentions of Messrs Hun and Co.' They call it The Wipers Times, after the army slang for Ypres, and fill it with spoofs, jokes, and subversive comedy. A hit with the troops on the Western Front, it also incurs...

Delhi graduate Dr. Prem Sharma and his wife move to the U.K. in 1963, hoping to establish a glamorous London practice, but instead, they arrive in Trefelin, a Welsh coal mining village where things are not quite as they should be.