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Boy Who Followed Ripley: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: VMC
When a troubled young runaway arrives on Tom Ripley's French estate, he is drawn into a world he thought he'd left behind: the seedy underworld of Berlin, involving kidnapping plots, lies and deception. Ripley becomes the boy's protector as friendship develops between the young man with a guilty conscie ...Show more
Deep Water: The compulsive classic thriller from the author of THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY by Patricia Highsmith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Mystery | Series: VMC
'If I really don't like somebody, I kill him ...You remember Malcolm McRae, don't you?' Melinda Van Allen is beautiful, headstrong and sexy. Unfortunately for Vic Van Allen, she is his wife. Their love has soured, and Melinda takes pleasure in flaunting her many affairs to her husband. When one of her l ...Show more
Don't Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: VMC
John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their young daughter's death. But when they encounter two old women who claim to have second sight, they find that instead of laying their ghosts to rest they become caught up in a train of increasingly strange and violent events. The ...Show more
Dunedin by Shena Mackay
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: VMC
New Zealand, 1909. After weeks at sea the new minister, Jack Mackenzie, arrives from Scotland with his unhappy wife and children in tow. A keen naturalist, he is more enthralled by the botanical - and carnal - delights of Dunedin than in the wellbeing of his flock. In London, eighty years later, Jack Ma ...Show more
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
$25.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction | Series: VMC | Reading Level: good
Mildred Lathbury is one of those 'excellent women' who is often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of dealing with most of the stock situations of life - birth, marriage, death, the successful jumble sales, the garden fete spoilt by bad weather'. As such, she often gets herself embroiled in o ...Show more
Fire from Heaven: A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: VMC
Alexander's beauty, strength and defiance were apparent from birth, but his boyhood honed those gifts into the makings of a king. His mother, Olympias, and his father, King Philip of Macedon, fought each other for their son's loyalty, teaching Alexander politics and vengeance from the cradle. His love f ...Show more
Funeral Games: A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: VMC
Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three, leaving behind an empire that stretched from Greece and Egypt to India. After Alexander's death in 323 B.C. his only direct heirs were two unborn sons and a simpleton half-brother. Every long-simmering faction exploded into the vacuum of power. Wives, ...Show more
I Go by Sea, I Go by Land by P. L. Travers
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Collections | Series: VMC
'James and I stayed on at home and everything was quiet and sunny and we got to thinking the war would never come after all ...Just when we were so sure nothing would happen, the German plane came over. It came over one night at one o'clock in the morning and the sound was quite different from an Englis ...Show more
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary | 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
In Diamond Square: A Virago Modern Classic by Merce Rodoreda
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: VMC
Barcelona, early 1930s: Natalia, a pretty shop-girl from the working-class quarter of Gracia, is hesitant when a stranger asks her to dance at the fiesta in Diamond Square. But Joe is charming and forceful, and she takes his hand. They marry and soon have two children; for Natalia it is an awakening, bo ...Show more
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier
$40.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: VMC Designer Collection
I threw the piece of paper on the fire. She saw it burn ...Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, a man who will love his grand home as much as he does himself. But the cosy world the two const ...Show more
Persian Boy: A Novel of Alexander the Great by Mary Renault
$26.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: VMC
The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander's life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas is sold as a courtesan to King Darius of Persia, but finds freedom with Alexander the Great after the Macedon army conquers his homeland. Their relationship sustains Alex ...Show more