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Black Narcissus (Virago Modern Classic) (HB) by Rumer Godden
$34.99 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
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biographies | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lo ...Show more
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'I have bought more copies of this book to give to people, in a frenzy of enthusiasm, than any other . . . Heartburn is the perfect, bittersweet, sobbingly funny, all-too-true confessional novel' Nigella Lawson Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another wo ...Show more
Mask of Apollo by Renault Mary
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Category: Classics | 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
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
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Category: Fiction | 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
Sisters by a River: A Virago Modern Classic by Barbara Comyns; Barbara Trapido (Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
This novel is told through the eyes (and spelling) of a young girl in a vivid and funny evocation of the author's own extraordinary childhood.
Testament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 by Vera Brittain
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biographies | 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 Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
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Category: Science Fiction/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 Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister - Vol. 1 : I Know My Own Heart by Anne Lister
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biographies | 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)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | 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
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