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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
An Angel at My Table - The Complete Autobiography by Janet Frame; Jane Campion (Introduction by)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'Janet Frame's luminous words are the more precious because they were snatched from the jaws of the disaster of her early life. It is one of the classics of autobiography. She knew that a writer must search her soul in order to say anything that is essential' HILARY MANTEL'Janet Frame is the greatest Ne ...Show more
Castle Dor by DU MAURIER DAPHNE
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Both a spellbinding love story and a superb evocation of Cornwall's mythic past, Castle Dor is a book with unique and fascinating origins. It began life as the unfinished last novel of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, the celebrated 'Q', and was passed by his daughter to Daphne du Maurier whose storytelling sk ...Show more
Frenchman's Creek by Daphne Du Maurier
$28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Restoration Court knows Lady Dona St Columb to be ripe for any folly, any outrage that will alter the tedium of her days. But there is another, secret Dona who longs for a life of honest love -- and sweetness, even if it is spiced with danger. It is this Dona who flees the stews of London for remote ...Show more
Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
$42.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Her mother's dying request obliges Mary Yellan to make a grim journey across bleak Cornish moorland to Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience and her overbearing husband, Joss Merlyn. With the coachman's warning echoing in her mind and affected by the inn's brooding power, Mary is thwarted in her i ...Show more
Memento Mori: A Virago Modern Classic by Muriel Spark
$26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Unforgettably astounding and a joy to read, Memento Mori is considered by many to be the greatest novel by the wizardly Dame Muriel Spark. In late 1950s London, a group of aging eccentrics is brought together by a series of uncanny events. Lettie Colston is the first to receive an anonymous phone call ...Show more
Noel Streatfeild's Holiday Stories: By the author of 'Ballet Shoes' by Noel Streatfeild
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic | 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
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics | Reading Level: near fine
'Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .' Working as a lady's companion, our heroine's outlook is bleak until, on a trip to the south of France, she meets a handsome widower whose proposal takes her by surprise. She accepts but, whisked from glamorous Monte Carlo to brooding Manderley, the n ...Show more
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
$28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
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
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier; Sarah Perry (Introduction by)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic 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. Fo ...Show more
The House on the Strand by Daphne Du Maurier
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his biochemical researches. The effect of this drug is to transport Dick from the house at Kilmarth to the Cornwall of the 14th cent ...Show more
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
$31.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel tells the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still farther, to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. ...Show more