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117 Days: An Account of Confinement and Interrogation Under the South African 90-Day Detention Law by Ruth First
$24.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'In prison you see only the moves of the enemy. Prison is the hardest place to fight a battle.' 117 Days is Ruth First's personal account of her detention under the iniquitous '90-day' law of 1963. There was no warrant, no charge and no trial - only suspicion. This sparsely written and unique record tel ...Show more
84 Charing Cross Road by Hélène Hanff; Juliet Stevenson (Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
84, Charing Cross Road with introduction by Anne Bancroft. 'A charmer. Will beguile an hour of your time and put you in tune with [humankind].'
A Wreath Of Roses by Elizabeth Taylor
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Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Spending the holiday with friends, as she has for many years, Camilla finds that their private absorptions - Frances with her painting and Liz with her baby - seem to exclude her from the gossipy intimacies of previous summers. Anxious that she will remain encased in her solitary life as a school secret ...Show more
Angela Carter's Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women by Angela Carter
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Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners Here are subversive tales - by Ama Ata Aidoo, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid and Katherine Mansfield among others - all have one thing in common: the w ...Show more
At Mrs Lippincote's by Elizabeth Taylor
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Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The debut novel from Elizabeth Taylor - shortlisted for the Booker Prize * Mrs Lippincote's house, with its mahogany furniture and yellowing photographs, stands as a reminder of all the certainties that have vanished with the advent of war. Temporarily, this is home for Julia, who has joined her husba ...Show more
Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor; Joanna Kingham (Afterword by); Jonathan Keates (Introduction by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'How deeply I envy any reader coming to her for the first time!' Elizabeth Jane Howard * A finely nuanced exploration of responsibility, snobbery and culture clash from one of the twentieth centrury's finest novelists. When Amy's husband dies on holiday in Istanbul, she is supported by the kindly but ...Show more
Carrie's War by Nina Bawden
$16.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Carrie and her brother Nick are evacuated to a Welsh mountain village in 1939 and become closely involved with several unforgettable characters. Age 12+
Christmas at High Rising: A Virago Modern Classic by Angela Thirkell
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Originally published in the 1930s and 1940s and never before collected, these stories by the incomparable Angela Thirkell relate merry scenes of a trip to the pantomime, escapades on ice, a Christmas Day gone awry, and an electrifying afternoon for Laura Morland and friends at Low Rising, not to mention ...Show more
Crewe Train by Rose Macaulay
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Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Denham Dobie has been brought up in Andorra by her father, a retired clergyman. On his death, she is snatched from this reclusive life and thrown into the social whirl of London by her sophisticated relatives. Denham, however, provides a candid response to the niceties of 'civilised' behaviour. CREWE TR ...Show more
Crowded Street by W. Holtby
$38.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
This is the story of Muriel Hammond, at twenty living within the suffocating confines of Edwardian middle-class society in Marshington, a Yorkshire village. A career is forbidden to her. Pretty, but not pretty enough, she fails to achieve the one thing required of her - to find a suitable husband. Then ...Show more
Deep Water: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
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Category: No Category | 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
Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule; Jackie Kay (Introduction by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Set in the late 1950s, this is the story of Evelyn Hall, an English Professor who is about to put an end to her disastrous 16-year marriage. She meets Ann Childs, 15 years her junior, and the pair embark on an affair, and begin the struggle to figure out just how a relationship between two women can las ...Show more