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Noel Streatfeild's Christmas Stories by Noel Streatfeild
$29.99 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
From the author of Ballet Shoes In this captivating collection of festive stories, there are auditions on stage and antics on ice, trips to the pantomime, holiday adventures, and laughter shared with family and friends. Charming, heartwarming and funny, this exciting new collection is sure to be a hit ...Show more
Noel Streatfeild's Holiday Stories: By the author of 'Ballet Shoes' by Noel Streatfeild
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'Classic Noel Streatfeild at her warm-hearted best. I absolutely loved it' Hilary McKay, author of THE SKYLARKS' WAR'Such rewarding reading' Daily TelegraphIn this captivating new collection, there are stories for every reader to enjoy: unforgettable holidays and unlikely friendships, crime-solving adve ...Show more
Northbridge Rectory by Angela Thirkell
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Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
As the war continues it brings its own set of trials to the the village of Northbridge. Eight officers of the Barsetshire Regiment have been billeted at the rectory, and Mrs Villars, the Rector's wife, is finding the attentions of Lieutenant Holden (who doesn't seem to mind that she is married to his ho ...Show more
Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings by Angela Carter
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Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In the pursuit of magnificence, nothing is sacred,' says Angela Carter, and magnificence is indeed her own achievement. One of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, her work as a journalist and critic was no less original. Long autobiographical pieces on her life in South Yorkshire and South L ...Show more
One Pair of Feet by Monica Dickens
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Category: Biography | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY LISSA EVANS'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens. She's beady eyed, big hearted and blissfully funny' Nina Stibbe'One Pair of Feet is not just a spirited and entertaining account of the training of a hospital nurse in wartime but a fascinating glimpse into a time and a c ...Show more
Our Spoons Came from Woolworths: A Virago Modern Classic by Barbara Comyns; Maggie O'Farrell (Introduction by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
"I told Helen my story and she went home and cried." So begins Our Spoons Came from Woolworths. But Barbara Comyns's beguiling novel is far from tragic, despite the harrowing ordeals its heroine endures. Sophia is twenty-one and na ve when she marries fellow artist Charles. She seems hardly fonder of he ...Show more
Palladian by Elizabeth Taylor; Neel Mukherjee (Introduction by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
An amusing, wry homage to Jane Eyre by one of the best novelists of the twentieth century.When newly orphaned Cassandra Dashwood arrives as governess to little Sophy, the scene seems set for the archetypal romance between young girl and austere widowed employer. Strange secrets abound in the ramshackle ...Show more
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier; Sarah Perry (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | 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. Fo ...Show more
Testament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 by Vera Brittain
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Category: General Fiction | 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 Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers
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Category: General 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