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August Folly: A Virago Modern Classic by Angela Thirkell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
It's August in the Barsetshire village of Worsted, and Richard Tebben, just down from Oxford, is contemplating the gloomy prospect of a long summer in the parental home. But the numerous and impossibly glamorous Dean family - exquisite Rachel, her capable husband and six of their nine brilliant children ...Show more
Cheerfulness Breaks In by Angela Thirkell
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York Times It is summer 1939 and the social event of the year is about to take place: Rose Birkett, a flighty beauty with a penchant for breaking engagements and hearts, is finally getting ma ...Show more
Growing Up by Angela Thirkell
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself' Alexander McCall Smith It is wartime in Barsetshire, and so much has changed. Belier's Priory is now a hospital for wounded soldiers, and Sir Harry and Lady Waring have moved t ...Show more
High Rising by Angela Thirkell; Alexander McCall Smith (Introduction by)
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Successful lady novelist Laura Morland and her boisterous young son Tony set off to spend Christmas at her country home in the sleepy surrounds of High Rising. But Laura's wealthy friend and neighbour George Knox has taken on a scheming secretary whose designs on marriage to her employer threaten the de ...Show more
Peace Breaks Out by Angela Thirkell
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York Times When peace breaks out, it surprises and unsettles familiar wartime routines, and the residents of Barsetshire seem as disconcerted as they are overjoyed. Nevertheless, as the count ...Show more
Pomfret Towers: A Virago Modern Classic by Angela Thirkell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vmc Ser.
This novel centers around the weekend party that Alice Barton, a shy English girl, attends at Pomfret Towers, the magnificent seventeenth-century home of Lord Pomfret. Alice's mother, Mrs. Barton, has decided that now is the time that timid, home-centered Alice, must learn to socialize. Alice, mustering ...Show more
Summer Half: A Virago Modern Classic by Angela Thirkell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
To his parents' dismay, Colin Keith - out of the noble but misplaced sense of duty peculiar to high-minded young university graduates - chooses to quit his training for the Bar and take a teaching job at Southbridge School. Little does Colin imagine that he will count among his pupils the demon in human ...Show more
The Brandons: A Virago Modern Classic by Angela Thirkell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vmc Ser.
The irresistible Brandons, their friends, and their servants are full of youthful nonsense and middle-aged folly. People will fall in love with the wrong person, and all are determined to misunderstand each other. Like Barbara Pym, E. F. Benson, and Jane Austen herself, Angela Thirkell has created a sma ...Show more
Wild Strawberries by Angela Thirkell; Alexander McCall Smith (Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A witty romp through English Country-house life at its most delightfully absurd. At Rushwater House in West Barsetshire, Lady Emily Leslie and her family are entertaining an assortment of house guests, hangers-on, and French monarchists. Amid a perfect welter of rapturous embraces and moonlight madness, ...Show more
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