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Noel Streatfeild's Christmas Stories by Noel Streatfeild
$29.99 AUD
Category: Children's Hardback | 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
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
$19.99 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
$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
Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
$27.99 AUD
$34.99 (20% off)
Category: Accessories | Series: Virago Modern Classics
'Strangers might remember a trip to see a girl hang, but who would spare a thought for the whos and hows and whys?' At thirteen, Mary, the daughter of a poor seamstress, longs for fine clothes as her neighbours hunger for food and warmth. For the love of a gorgeous red ribbon she finds herself seduced i ...Show more
Small G - a Summer Idyll by Patricia Highsmith
$22.99 AUD
$27.99 (17% off)
Category: Accessories | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Completed just months before Patricia Highsmith's death in 1995, Small g explores the labyrinthine intricacies of passion, sexuality, and jealousy in a charming tale of love misdirected. 'What is most remarkable in this novel is the empathy . . . with which Highsmith writes about gay men . . . one can ...Show more
Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY MAVIS CHEEK'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' Richard Osman'She is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life' Anne TylerTogether yet alone, the Misses Bede occupy the central crossroads of parish life. Harriet, plump, elegant and jolly, likes noth ...Show more
South Riding by Winifred Holtby
$24.99 AUD
$39.99 (37% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
"Anna Maxwell Martin (Bleak House) and David Morrissey lead an outstanding cast in this rich and panoramic portrait of a Yorkshire community in the Thirties that carries remarkable echoes of our own times. South Riding is a terrific love story, but it's also a raw and real portrait of a whole community ...Show more
Testament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 by Vera Brittain
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of the most famous autobiographies of the ...Show more
The Charioteer by Mary Renault
$19.99 AUD
$27.99 (28% off)
Category: Accessories | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Injured at Dunkirk, Laurie Odell, a young corporal, is recovering at a rural veterans' hospital. There he meets Andrew, a conscientious objector serving as an orderly, and the men find solace in their covert friendship. Then Ralph Lanyon appears, a mentor from Laurie's schooldays. Through him, Laurie is ...Show more
The Company She Keeps by Mary McCarthy
$22.99 AUD
$29.99 (23% off)
Category: Accessories | Series: Virago Modern Classics
These six brilliantly written episodes, brought together in Mary McCarthy's first novel, create a fascinating portrait of a 1930s New York social circle. Based loosely on the author's own life, the book follows a young bohemian woman, Margaret Sargent, through her experiences and lost loves in a time of ...Show more