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Boy Who Followed Ripley #4 (Virago Modern Classic) by Patricia Highsmith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: VMC
When a troubled young runaway arrives on Tom Ripley's French estate, he is drawn into a world he thought he'd left behind: the seedy underworld of Berlin, involving kidnapping plots, lies and deception. Ripley becomes the boy's protector as friendship develops between the young man with a guilty conscie ...Show more
Don't Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
$49.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: VMC
John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their young daughter's death. But when they encounter two old women who claim to have second sight, they find that instead of laying their ghosts to rest they become caught up in a train of increasingly strange and violent events. The ...Show more
I Go by Sea, I Go by Land by P. L. Travers
$10.00 AUD
Category: Middle Grade | Series: VMC
'James and I stayed on at home and everything was quiet and sunny and we got to thinking the war would never come after all ...Just when we were so sure nothing would happen, the German plane came over. It came over one night at one o'clock in the morning and the sound was quite different from an Englis ...Show more
Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: VMC Designer Collection
On a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn to honour her mother's dying request. The warning of the coachman echoes in her memory as, terrified of the inn's brooding power, she becomes ensnared in the dark schemes enacted behind its walls.
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier
$45.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: VMC Designer Collection
I threw the piece of paper on the fire. She saw it burn ...Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, a man who will love his grand home as much as he does himself. But the cosy world the two const ...Show more
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: VMC
Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in making Philip his heir, knowing he will treasure his beautiful Cornish estate. But Philip's world is shattered when Ambrose sets off on a trip to Florence. There he falls in love a ...Show more
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
$35.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: VMC Designer Collection
The psychologists would call it folie a deux . . .'Bruno slammed his palms together. "Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?'' From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haine ...Show more
Talented Mr Ripley: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: VMC Designer Collection
Tom Ripley travels to Italy with a commission to coax a prodigal young American back to his wealthy father. But Ripley finds himself very fond of Dickie Greenleaf. He wants to be like him - exactly like him. Suave, agreeable and utterly amoral, Ripley will stop at nothing to accomplish his goal. The Tal ...Show more
The Birds And Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: VMC
'How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew . . . ' A classic of alienation and horror, 'The Birds' was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection ech ...Show more
The Birds And Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: VMC
How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew . . . 'A classic of alienation and horror, 'The Birds' was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a ...Show more
The Doll: Short Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
$22.99 AUD
'I want to know if men realise when they are insane. Sometimes I think that my brain cannot hold together, it is filled with too much horror - too much despair ...I cannot sleep, I cannot close my eyes without seeing his damned face. If only it had been a dream.' In 'The Doll', a waterlogged notebook is ...Show more
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: VMC Designer Collection
'One of the funniest books I've ever read' - Gore Vidal * The Dud Avocado gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living. It is, as the Guardian observes, 'one of the best novels about growing up fast'.Sally Jay Gorce is a woman with a mis ...Show more