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A Glass Of Blessings by Barbara Pym
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CLARE CHAMBERS'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN 'The subtlest of her books . . . the sparkle on first acquaintance has been succeeded by the deeper brilliance of established art' PHILIP LARKINWilmet Forsyth is well dressed, well looked after, suitably husbanded, go ...Show more
Black Narcissus (Virago Modern Classic) (HB) by Rumer Godden
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'A remarkable novel. One in a thousand' - ObserverHigh in the Himalayas, the mountaintop palace shines like a jewel. Built for the General's harem, laughter and music once floated out over the gorge. Now it sits abandoned, windswept and haunting.The palace is bestowed to the Sisters of Mary, and what wa ...Show more
Carrie's War by Nina Bawden
$34.99 AUD
Category: Kid's Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
One of the most loved and enduring wartime novels, Carrie's War is a modern classic. WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY MICHAEL MORPURGO AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALAN MARKS 'A touching, utterly convincing book' JACQUELINE WILSON 'Poignant and realistic . . . Carrie's War captures the true reality of war for a child, an ...Show more
Carrie's War by Nina Bawden
$16.99 AUD
Category: Teenage | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Carrie and her brother Nick are evacuated to a Welsh mountain village in 1939 and become closely involved with several unforgettable characters. Age 12+
Corregidora by Gayl Jones
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Category: Literature | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The new edition of an American masterpiece, this is the harrowing story of Ursa Corregidora, a blues singer in the early 20th century forced to confront the inherited trauma of slavery. A literary classic that remains vital to our understanding of the past, Corregidora is Gayl Jones's powerful debut ...Show more
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
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Category: Biography | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lo ...Show more
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
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Category: General | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'I have bought more copies of this book to give to people, in a frenzy of enthusiasm, than any other . . . Heartburn is the perfect, bittersweet, sobbingly funny, all-too-true confessional novel' Nigella Lawson Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another wo ...Show more
Heartburn: 40th Anniversary Edition by Nora Ephron
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Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, WITH A FOREWORD BY STANLEY TUCCI'I have bought more copies of this book to give to people, in a frenzy of enthusiasm, than any other . . . Heartburn is the perfect, bittersweet, sobbingly funny, all-too-true confessional novel' NIGELLA LAWSON'I kept a copy of Nora Ephron's Hear ...Show more
In This House of Brede - A Virago Modern Classic by Rumer Godden
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Category: Literature | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
By the author of Black Narcissus. 'Her craftsmanship is always sure; her understanding of character is compassionate and profound; her prose is pure, delicate, and gently witty' New York Times 'The motto was Pax but the word was set in a circle of thorns. Peace, but what a strange peace, made of unrem ...Show more
Mask of Apollo by Renault Mary
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Category: General | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not pretend the past is like the present, or that the people of ancient Greece were just like us. She shows us their strangeness; discerning, sure-footed, challenging our values, piquing our curiosity, she leads us ...Show more
Minka And Curdy: The enchanting story of a writer and her cats by Antonia White
$29.99 AUD
Category: Kid's Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
One of the most enchanting books about cats ever written, Minka and Curdy describes the adventures - and misadventures - of two very different kittens.Victoria, a real tyrant of a cat, spent so many years training her owner to be the ideal hostess that Mrs Bell feels it would be disrespectful to replace ...Show more
Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont: A Virago Modern Classic by Elizabeth Taylor
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Category: Literature | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize On a rainy Sunday afternoon, Mrs Palfrey, recently widowed, arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days. Her fellow residents are a mixed bunch - magnificently flawed and eccentric - living off crumbs of affection and an obsessive interest in t ...Show more