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A View Of The Harbour: A Virago Modern Classic by Elizabeth Taylor
$24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | 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
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
$38.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Vmc Designer Collection
Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy,achievement and celebration. In this first volume ...Show more
The Birds And Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
$28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: VMC
How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew . . . 'A classic of alienation and horror, 'The Birds' was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a ...Show more
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton
$39.99 NZD
Category: Ghosts & Horror | Series: VMC Designer Collection
In these powerful and elegant tales, Edith Wharton evokes moods of disquiet and darkness within her own era. In icy new England a fearsome double foreshadows the fate of a rich young man; a married farmer is bewitched by a dead girl; a ghostly bell saves a woman's reputation. Brittany conjures ancient c ...Show more
Vanishing Cornwall by Daphne Du Maurier
$42.00 NZD
Category: British Isles | Series: VMC
'There was a smell in the air of tar and rope and rusted chain, a smell of tidal water. Down harbour, around the point, was the open sea. Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known. Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a boat, to be alone ...I for thi ...Show more
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