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Julius by Daphne Du Maurier
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A chilling story of ambition, Daphne du Maurier's third novel has lost none of its ability to unsettle and disturb. 'His first instinct was to stretch out his hands to the sky. The white clouds seemed so near to him, surely they were easy to hold and to caress, strange-moving things belonging to the wi ...Show more
My Cousin Rachel (FTI) by Daphne Du Maurier
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in making Philip his heir, knowing he will treasure his beautiful Cornish estate. But Philip's world is shattered when Ambrose sets off on a trip to Florence. There he falls in love a ...Show more
New Treasure Seekers (Bastable Family #3) by E. Nesbit
$16.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Collections | Series: Virago Modern Classics
The final instalment of the escapades of the Bastable children.Oswald, Dora, Dicky, Alice, H. O. and Noel fill their free time with entertainments that don't always turn out as they plan. But whether telling fortunes at a fete, unwittingly assisting an elopement, reforming their nasty cousin Archibald o ...Show more
Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings by Angela Carter
$22.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In the pursuit of magnificence, nothing is sacred,' says Angela Carter, and magnificence is indeed her own achievement. One of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, her work as a journalist and critic was no less original. Long autobiographical pieces on her life in South Yorkshire and South L ...Show more
Parasites by DU MAURIER DAPHNE
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
'When people play the game: Name three or four persons whom you would choose to have with you on a desert island - they never choose the Delaneys. They don't even choose us one by one as individuals. We have earned, not always fairly we consider, the reputation of being difficult guests . . .' Maria, Ni ...Show more
Poison for Teacher by Nancy Spain
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'Her detective novels are hilarious. They are high camp and less about detecting than delighting, with absurd farce and a wonderful turn of phrase . . . Nancy Spain was bold, she was brave, she was funny, she was feisty. I owe her a great deal' Sandi Toksvig A nasty attack of murder has broken out at Ra ...Show more
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | 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)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | 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
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | 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
The Flight of the Falcon by Daphne Du Maurier
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
As a young guide for Sunshine Tours, Armino Fabbio leads a pleasant, if humdrum life - until he becomes circumstantially involved in the murder of an old peasant woman in Rome. The woman, he gradually comes to realise, was his family's beloved servant many years ago, in his native town of Ruffano. He re ...Show more
The Fran Lebowitz Reader (PB) by Fran Lebowitz
$24.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from New York legend and satirist, Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, Pretend It's a City.'The gold standard for intelligence, efficiency and humour. Now and forever' DAVID SEDARIS'She's inexhaustible ...Show more
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Virago modern classics | Reading Level: very good
The boldest of English women writers' LORNA SAGE