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117 Days: An Account of Confinement and Interrogation Under the South African 90-Day Detention Law by Ruth First
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | 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)
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | 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
19.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | 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
An Academic Question by Barbara Pym
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | 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
An Angel at My Table - The Complete Autobiography by Janet Frame; Jane Campion (Introduction by)
34.99 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
An Angel at My Table - The complete Autobiography by Janet Frame
24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Virago Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
One of the great autobiographies of the twentieth century ... A journey from luminous childhood, through the dark experiences of supposed madness, to the renewal of her life through writing fiction. It is a heroic story, and told with such engaging tone, humorous perspective and imaginative power' Micha ...Show more
Carrie's War by Nina Bawden
19.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | 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+
Carrie's War by Nina Bawden
39.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
One of the most loved and enduring wartime novels, Carrie's War is a modern classic. WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY MICHAEL MORPURGO AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALAN MARKS 'A touching, utterly convincing book' JACQUELINE WILSON 'Poignant and realistic . . . Carrie's War captures the true reality of war for a child, an ...Show more
Civil to Strangers by Barbara Pym
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
When Barbara Pym died in 1980 she left a considerable amount of unpublished material. This volume contains an early novel, CIVIL TO STRANGERS, three novellas and an autobiographical essay, 'Finding a Voice', Pym's only written comment on her writing career. In CIVIL TO STRANGERS the lives of a young cou ...Show more
Corregidora by Gayl Jones
27.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The new edition of an American masterpiece, this is the harrowing story of Ursa Corregidora, a blues singer in the early 20th century forced to confront the inherited trauma of slavery. A literary classic that remains vital to our understanding of the past, Corregidora is Gayl Jones's powerful debut ...Show more
Crampton Hodnet by Barbara Pym
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Formidable Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties to young academics and acting as watchdog of the morals of North Oxford. Anthea, her great-niece, is in love with a dashing upper-class undergraduate with political ambitions. Of this, Miss Doggett thoroughly approves. Anthea's father, however ...Show more
Faces In The Water by Janet Frame; Hilary Mantel (Introduction by)
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | 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 . . . and yet to read her is no more difficult than breathing' Hilary Mantel When Janet Frame's doctor suggested that she write about her traumatic experiences in mental instit ...Show more