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Mask of Apollo by Renault Mary
$24.99 AUD
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
$22.99 AUD
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
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
$36.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics
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 the relentless round of hotel meal ...Show more
My Cousin Rachel (FTI) by Daphne Du Maurier
$19.98 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Virago Modern Classics
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
Noel Streatfeild's Christmas Stories by Noel Streatfeild
$16.99 AUD
Category: Kid's Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'The wonderful Noel Streatfeild's Christmas Stories collects, for the first time, nine festive stories originally written for annuals and magazines in the 1940s and 1950s . . . As ever, Streatfeild's children always feel utterly real and relatable. A beautifully produced treat' Anna Carey, Irish TimesIn ...Show more
Noel Streatfeild's Christmas Stories by Noel Streatfeild
$29.99 AUD
Category: Christmas | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
From the author of Ballet Shoes In this captivating collection of festive stories, there are auditions on stage and antics on ice, trips to the pantomime, holiday adventures, and laughter shared with family and friends. Charming, heartwarming and funny, this exciting new collection is sure to be a hit ...Show more
Noel Streatfeild's Holiday Stories: By the author of 'Ballet Shoes' by Noel Streatfeild
$16.99 AUD
Category: Kid's Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'Classic Noel Streatfeild at her warm-hearted best. I absolutely loved it' Hilary McKay, author of THE SKYLARKS' WAR'Such rewarding reading' Daily TelegraphIn this captivating new collection, there are stories for every reader to enjoy: unforgettable holidays and unlikely friendships, crime-solving adve ...Show more
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics
'Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .' Working as a lady's companion, our heroine's outlook is bleak until, on a trip to the south of France, she meets a handsome widower whose proposal takes her by surprise. She accepts but, whisked from glamorous Monte Carlo to brooding Manderley, the n ...Show more
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics
A beautiful hardback edition to mark the 80th anniversary of one of the best-loved novels ever written. A gothic tale of love, secrets and jealousy.WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SARAH PERRY'One of the most influential novels of the twentieth century, Rebecca has woven its way into the fabric of our culture ...Show more
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For ...Show more
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier; Sarah Perry (Introduction by)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. Fo ...Show more