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The Healing by Gayl Jones
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Gayl Jones's special gift is to shape experience and make it seem unshaped. -John Alfred Avant, The New Republic Gayl Jones's first novel, Corregidora, won her recognition as a writer whose work was gripping, subtle, and sure. It was praised, along with her second novel, Eva's Man, by writers and criti ...Show more
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
$20.00 AUD
Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Winter is an Earth-like planet with two major differences: conditions are semi artic even at the warmest time of the year, and the inhabitants are all of the same sex. Tucked away in a remote corner of the universe, they have no knowledge of space travel or of life beyond their own world. And when a str ...Show more
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
$24.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago modern classics
The boldest of English women writers' LORNA SAGE
The Magic Toyshop: A Virago Modern Classic by Angela Carter
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
This Audible Exclusive adaptation of Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop, is brought expertly to life by multi-award winning actress, Fiona Shaw. A coming of age tale which extends the nature and boundaries of love, as seen through the eyes of the youthful and na ve Melanie, The Magic Toyshop was enormou ...Show more
The Passion Of New Eve by Angela Carter
$24.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago modern classics
'I know nothing. I am a tabula erasa, a blank sheet of paper, an unhatched egg. I have not yet become a woman, although I possess a woman's shape. Not a woman, no: both more and less than a real woman. Now I am a being as mythic and monstrous as Mother herself...New York has become the City of Dreadful ...Show more
The Perpetual Curate by Margaret O. W. Oliphant
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
First published 1864 as part of the "Chronicles of Carlingford" series which first appeared in Blackwood's Magazine.
The Return Of The Soldier (Virago Modern Classic) by Rebecca West; Sadie Jones (Introduction by); Victoria Glendinning (Introduction by)
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The soldier returns from the front to the three women who love him. His wife, Kitty, with her cold, moonlight beauty, and his devoted cousin Jenny wait in their exquisite home on the crest of the Harrow-weald. Margaret Allington, his first and long-forgotten love, is nearby in the dreary suburb of Weald ...Show more
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister - Vol. 1 : I Know My Own Heart by Anne Lister
$23.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
These remarkable diaries are a piece of lost lesbian history. Anne Lister defied the role of womanhood seen in the novels of Jane Austen: she was bold, fiercely independent, a landowner, industrialist, traveller ? and lesbian. She kept extensive diaries, written partly in code, of her life and loves. Th ...Show more
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister - Vol. 2 - No Priest But Love by Anne Lister; Helena Whitbread (Editor)
$23.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
ANNE LISTER IS THE INSPIRATION FOR GENTLEMAN JACK, THE ACCLAIMED BBC/HBO SERIES BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT, STARRING SURANNE JONES. 'The Lister diaries are the Dead Sea Scrolls of lesbian history; they changed everything. By resurrecting them and editing them with such loving attention and intelligence, Helen ...Show more
The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A rediscovered German classic novel from 1942, never before published in the UK, The Seventh Cross is both a gripping escape story and a powerful novel of resistance. 'At once a suspenseful manhunt story and a knowing portrait of the perils of ordinary life in Hitler's Germany, The Seventh Cross is not ...Show more
The Sleeping Beauty by Elizabeth Taylor
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A subtle love story by one of the most accomplished writers of the 20th century.
The Soul Of Kindness by Elizabeth Taylor
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
' "Here I am!" Flora called to Richard as she went downstairs. For a second, Meg felt disloyalty. It occurred to her of a sudden that Flora was always saying that, and that it was in the tone of one giving a lovely present. She was bestowing herself.' The soul of kindness is what Flora believes herself ...Show more