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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 Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
$16.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics
A timeless Cinderella story, A Little Princess is one of the best-loved children's classics of all time. A heartwarming tale that champions the power of imagination. 'I'd read Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden and loved it - so I tried A Little Princess and liked it even more!' Jacqueline Wil ...Show more
A View Of The Harbour: A Virago Modern Classic by Elizabeth Taylor
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics,VMC Designer Collection
'Her stories remain with one, indelibly, as though they had been some turning-point in one's own experience' - Elizabeth Bowen In the faded coastal village of Newby, everyone looks out for - and in on - each other, and beneath the deceptively sleepy exterior, passions run high. Beautiful divorcee Tory ...Show more
A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor
$29.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics
In the faded coastal village of Newby, everyone looks out for - and in on - each other, and beneath the deceptively sleepy exterior, passions run high. Beautiful divorcee Tory is painfully involved with her neighbour, Robert, while his wife Beth, Tory's best friend, is consumed by the worlds she creates ...Show more
A Weekend with Claude by Beryl Bainbridge
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics
An old snapshot shows a group of friends lounging in the sunshine, on a weekend in the country at the invitation of bearded, satyric Claude and his wife Julia. The girl in the centre is dreamy Lily, whose latest failed love affair forms the purpose of the weekend, as Lily's friends set out to help her e ...Show more
A Woman in Berlin - Diary 20 April 1945 to 22 June 1945 by Anonymous; Antony Beevor (Introduction)
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
* A startling account of a German survivor of the Second World War. 'One of the most important personal accounts ever written about the effects of war and defeat' Antony Beevor 'One of the most extraordinary and moving books I have ever read' Antonia Fraser
A Wreath Of Roses by Elizabeth Taylor
$24.99 AUD
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
An Academic Question by Barbara Pym
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Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics
A delightful comedy of manners with a touch of mystery, An Academic Question is prime Barbara Pym territory. In a provincial university town Caro Grimstone, a dissatisfied faculty wife, becomes the unwilling accomplice to her husband Alan's ambitions. When she volunteers as a reader to a blind, esteemed ...Show more
Angel by Elizabeth Taylor
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Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Writing stories that are extravagant and fanciful, fifteen-year old Angel retreats to a world of romance, escaping the drabness of provincial life. She knows she is different, that she is destined to become a feted authoress, owner of great riches and of Paradise House ...After reading The Lady Irania, ...Show more
Angel by Elizabeth Taylor
$29.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Fifteen-year-old Angelica Deverell knows she is different, that she is destined to become a feted author. Escaping the dreariness of her provincial life, she locks herself in her room, pouring all her romantic longings on to the page. After reading The Lady Irania, the publishers are certain it will be ...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