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The Companion is in the process of moving to a new site: HEBates.com, where you will find it listed as "The Library."

While the transfer is in process, you can use this site -- the expert search function works, but the basic search function does not. At the new site, keyword searching is fully functional, but not all links have been established yet.

A guide to the works of English author Herbert Ernest Bates (1905-1974).

Whether you are a long-term fan of Bates or are just discovering him, this site exists to enrich and expand your knowledge and appreciation of a very fine twentieth-century author.

The Classics:

Darling The Darling Buds of May and other Larkin novels

My Uncle Silas and other Silas stories

Fair Stood the Wind for France and other WW2 novels

Through the Woods and other nature writing