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Black Narcissus (Virago Modern Classic) (HB) by Rumer Godden
$35.00 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
Breakfast with the Nikolides by Rumer Godden
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
For Emily Pool, India is a magical place where she has the freedom to escape her mother's suffocating influence. Her days are spent exploring the canals and gardens of East Bengal, and admiringly observing her glamorous, dignified neighbours, the Nikolides. But just as the cracks in Emily's family home ...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
Civil To Strangers by Barbara Pym
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY HAZEL HOLT'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' Richard Osman'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' Philip LarkinWhen Barbara Pym died in 1980, she left a considerable amount of unpublished material. This volume contains an early novel, Civil to Strangers, three novellas and ...Show more
Complete Short Stories by Elizabeth Taylor
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Elizabeth Taylor, highly acclaimed author of classic novels such as Angel, A Game of Hide and Seek and Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, is also renowned for her powerful, acutely observed stories. Here for the first time, the stories - including some only recently rediscovered - are collected in one volume ...Show more
Corregidora by Gayl Jones
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
Crampton Hodnet by Barbara Pym
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Formidable Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties to young academics and acting as watchdog of the morals of North Oxford. Anthea, her great-niece, is in love with a dashing upper-class undergraduate with political ambitions. Of this, Miss Doggett thoroughly approves. Anthea's father, however ...Show more
Crampton Hodnet by Barbara Pym
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY LOUIS DE BERNIERES'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' PHILIP LARKINFormidable Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties for young academics and acting as watchdog for the morals of North Oxford. Anthea, her great-n ...Show more
Deep Water: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'If I really don't like somebody, I kill him . . . You remember Malcolm McRae, don't you?' Melinda Van Allen is beautiful, headstrong and sexy. Unfortunately for Vic Van Allen, she is his wife. Their love has soured, and Melinda takes pleasure in flaunting her many affairs to her husband. When one of he ...Show more
Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston; Jesmyn Ward (Introduction by)
$23.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
With a new introduction by JESMYN WARD 'Zora Neale Hurston was a knockout in her life, a wonderful writer and a fabulous person. Devilishly funny and academically solid: delicious mixture' MAYA ANGELOU First published in 1942 at the height of her popularity, Dust Tracks on a Road is Zora Neale Hurston ...Show more
Eva's Man by Gayl Jones
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Eva Medina Canada sits in her psychiatric ward, silent. She has murdered her lover and they want to know why. Her memories weave back and forth over encounters with the men in her life - the schoolboy who played doctors and nurses with a dirty popsicle stick; her mother's boyfriend; her cousin; her husb ...Show more
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMANMildred Lathbury is one of those excellent women who are often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of dealing with most of the stock situations or even the great moments of life - birth, marriage, death, the succe ...Show more