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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].'
An Angel at My Table - The Complete Autobiography by Janet Frame; Jane Campion (Introduction by)
35.00 NZD
Category: No Category | 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: NZ Fiction | 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
Faces in the Water by Janet Frame
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Written with unsparing precision and astounding immediacy, Faces in the Water takes the reader behind the walls of two hospitals--Cliffhaven and Treecroft--and into the hearts and minds of its confused and tormented patients. The experience of insanity and "the utter, the naked precariousness of existen ...Show more
My Cousin Rachel (FTI) by Daphne Du Maurier
21.99 NZD
Category: Film & Television | 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
The Daylight and the Dust: Selected Short Stories by Janet Frame; Michele S. Roberts (Introduction by)
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'The Daylight and the Dust' is a comprehensive selection of Janet Frame's short stories. Written over four decades, they come from her classic prize-winning collection 'The Lagoon and Other Stories', right up to 'You Are Now Entering the Human Heart'.
The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers
34.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A rediscovered German classic novel from 1942, never before published in the UK, The Seventh Cross is both a gripping escape story and a powerful novel of resistance. 'At once a suspenseful manhunt story and a knowing portrait of the perils of ordinary life in Hitler's Germany, The Seventh Cross is not ...Show more
Tipping The Velvet by Sarah Waters
34.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
'Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen.' A saucy, sensuous and multi-layered historical romance set in the 'roaring' 1890s, Tipping the Velvet follows the gl ...Show more
Towards Another Summer by Janet Frame
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Self-styled writer Grace Cleave has writer's block, and her anxiety is only augmented by her chronic aversion to leaving her home, to be "among people, even for five or ten minutes." And so it is with trepidation that she accepts an invitation to spend a weekend away from London in the north of England. ...Show more
Writers as Readers: A Celebration of Virago Modern Classics by Virago Press
39.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Margaret Drabble | Beryl Bainbridge | Angela Carter | Maggie O'Farrell | Elizabeth Jane Howard | A. S. Byatt | Penelope Lively | Sarah Waters | Jonathan Coe | Diana Souhami | Jilly Cooper | Elizabeth Bowen | Mark Bostridge | Alexander McCall Smith | Sarah Dunant | Rachel Cooke | Zadie Smith | Anita Desa ...Show more
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