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Frenchman's Creek by Daphne Du Maurier
34.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Jaded by the numbing politeness of Restoration London, Lady Dona St. Columb revolts against high society. She rides into the countryside, guided only by her restlessness and her longing to escape. But when chance leads her to meet a French pirate, hidden within Cornwall's shadowy forests, Dona discovers ...Show more
Frenchman's Creek by Daphne Du Maurier
26.95 NZD
27.99 (3% off)
Category: 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
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR 'Girl, Interrupted is a beautiful, complex story that truly led the way on opening up a new, brave, nuanced approach to talking about women's mental health. It is an intense and personal story that taps into a universal truth about how the w ...Show more
Heartburn by Nora Ephron (Introduction by)
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'I have bought more copies of this book to give to people, in a frenzy of enthusiasm, than any other . . . Heartburn is the perfect, bittersweet, sobbingly funny, all-too-true confessional novel' Nigella Lawson Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another w ...Show more
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
27.00 NZD
27.99 (3% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago modern classics
'The pie I threw at Mark made a terrific mess, but a blueberry pie would have been even better, since it would have permanently ruined his new blazer, the one he bought with Thelma.' Rachel Samstat is smart, successful, terrific cook, married to a high-flying Washington journalist . . . and devastated. ...Show more
High Rising by Angela Thirkell; Alexander McCall Smith (Introduction by)
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Successful lady novelist Laura Morland and her boisterous young son Tony set off to spend Christmas at her country home in the sleepy surrounds of High Rising. But Laura's wealthy friend and neighbour George Knox has taken on a scheming secretary whose designs on marriage to her employer threaten the de ...Show more
Hungry Hill by Dame Daphne Du Maurier
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'I tell you your mine will be in ruins and your home destroyed and your children forgotten ...but this hill will be standing still to confound you.' So curses Morty Donovan when 'Copper John' Brodrick builds his mine at Hungry Hill. The Brodricks of Clonmere gain great wealth by harnessing the power of ...Show more
Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym; Jilly Cooper (Introduction by)
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The author of Excellent Women explores female friendship and the quiet yearnings of British middle-class life--a literary delight for fans of Jane Austen. Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates were close friends at Oxford University, but now live very different lives. Forty-one-year-old Jane lives in the co ...Show more
Jonah's Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston; Jesmyn Ward (Introduction by)
27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
With a new introduction by JESMYN WARD Born on the wrong side of the creek, John Buddy Pearson, the son of a slave, has come a long way since his shoeless days. With some schooling, a job and marriage to clever Lucy Potts, his fortunes are looking up. But, unable to resist the lure of women or a fight, ...Show more
Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Less Than Angels follows the loves, works and hopes of a group of young anthropologists. Catherine Oliphant is a writer and lives with handsome anthropologist Tom Mallow. Their relationship runs into trouble when he begins a romance with student Deirdre Swann, so Catherine turns her attention to the rec ...Show more
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
29.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Lolly Willowes is a twenty-eight-year-old spinster when her adored father dies, leaving her dependent upon her brothers and their wives. After twenty years of self-effacement as a maiden aunt, she decides to break free and moves to a small Bedfordshire village. Here, happy and unfettered, she enjoys her ...Show more
Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont: A Virago Modern Classic by Elizabeth Taylor
27.00 NZD
28.99 (6% off)
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize On a rainy Sunday afternoon, Mrs Palfrey, recently widowed, arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days. Her fellow residents are a mixed bunch - magnificently flawed and eccentric - living off crumbs of affection and an obsessive interest in t ...Show more